33% of Irish men aged 34 live at home

Echospace

33% of 34-year-old Irish men still living at home 08/10/2010 - 14:41:35


A third of Irish men are still living at home at the age of 34, according to a new survey.

A Eurostat report shows young men between 25 and 34 are twice as likely as young women to still live with their parents.

The figures also show that Irish women are the least likely in Europe to be living with a partner - while Irish men are the least likely to commit by the time they are 34.

Read more: http://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/33-of-34-year-old-irish-men-still-living-at-home-476939.html#ixzz11mduYiOJ

Is this true? Is the recession to blame for this? I am 26 and living at home but plan to move out within the next year. Whether that materializes or not is the question.

Biggins

Ya gotta love the mammies!

Ruu_Old

Not surprised. Irish mammy syndrome.

xalot

Really??????????? Thats horrific. Seriously, nearly half your life living at home?
Couldn't do it. Couldn't 'do' anyone still doing it at 34.

easyeason3

Echospace wrote: »

Is this true? Is the recession to blame for this? I am 26 and living at home but plan to move out within the next year. Whether that materializes or not is the question.
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No.
Irish Mammies that do everything for their sons are to blame. Seriously, I know a lot of men that can't use an oven, microwave, get skid marks out of jocks simply because Mammy has always done it.

Cosmic Penguin

I knew things were bad, but to think that 67% of 34 year old men are homeless is very sad.

nullzero

Perhaps that's what you get in a culture of house buyers as opposed to renters?

My name is URL

I'd say the recession plays a big part in it. I know a few people who have moved back home in the last year either because they were made redundant or their housemates moved out and they can't replace them or afford the rent on their own. In a way they're the lucky ones because they didn't yet have families of their own and were only renting so not fully committed

myflipflops

Surely this is bo**ox??

I'm 26 and am struggling to think of more than 1 of my friends that still live at home. Plenty of them don't even live in Ireland anymore.

Terry

Yay. I'm a statistic.

FreudianSlippers

I think it's not fully related to the recession. Lots of Irish men and women just tend to live at home longer. 34 is very old for it, but I think with prices so high over the past years they had to live at home to save perhaps?

Gunsfortoys

Just shows you men would rather have their mammies than the Irish women available these days.

theteal

Ah they're just waiting for the folks to croak it...gaff for free!

easyeason3

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Just shows you men would rather have their mammies than the Irish women available these days.

Meaning????

Kimono-Girl

Ruu wrote: »

Not surprised. Irish mammy syndrome.

totally agree i know soooooo many guys still living at home, its kinda sad really by 21 they should have moved out!

alwaysadub

Terry wrote: »

Yay. I'm a statistic.

So your strange lodger is actually your mother?

http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/ITY_PUBLIC/3-08102010-AP/EN/3-08102010-AP-EN.PDF
Eurostat pdf

It's 32% of men aged 25-34 rather than 32% of men aged 34

24 and out the door.

Mrmoe

These stats would be skewed towards men living at home. If you were to take young farmers as an example they majority would be men, many of whom would still be at home looking after their parents. Quite often they wouldn't build their own home until they get married. The same thing could be applied to other male dominated careers such as the construction industry or that require a lot of travelling.

DundalkDuffman

That sounds impossibly high to me. I'm just past 34 and can't think of a single one of my network of friends that lives in their original family home. I always take these stats with a large helping of saxa though.

MagicMarker

myflipflops wrote: »

Surely this is bo**ox??

I'm 26 and am struggling to think of more than 1 of my friends that still live at home. Plenty of them don't even live in Ireland anymore.

How many of them are 34?

What about 30 or 35 year olds?

fonecrusher1

/cough losers cough.....

Morlar

I'd say a lot of them either can't afford to rent on their own, don't know their way around the benefits system or are saving for a deposit for a house.

The rest are dysfunctional & probably a high proportion of those 33% post on boards when you think about it.

Dravokivich

OisinT wrote: »

I think it's not fully related to the recession. Lots of Irish men and women just tend to live at home longer. 34 is very old for it, but I think with prices so high over the past years they had to live at home to save perhaps?

yeah, depends how often they go out boozing... :P

in contrast though... my folks in their early 20's 26 years ago were able to afford a resonable mortgage on a resonably priced house. With only 1 of them working.

I wouldn't be able to afford a mortgage and I'd be earning more now, then what my mother would have been earning then.

I find that contrast shocking. I'd expect to be able to afford a reasonable mortgage on a reasonably priced house on my own salary. But I'd struggle to be able to afford an over eager mortgage on an over priced 1 bedbroom shítbox.

gurramok

I'm 35 and know quite a few men and women around my age who still live at home. Part of the reason is that they're urbanites and have no reason to move out until they meet someone special and settle. Also, they either can't afford to move out or they're staying in the family home for inheritance purposes!

phantom_lord

gurramok wrote: »

Part of the reason is that they're urbanites and have no reason to move out until they meet someone special and settle.

C'mon. I think living at home later than 20 is just plain embarrassing.

fonecrusher1

Morlar wrote: »

I'd say a lot of them either can't afford to rent on their own, don't know their way around the benefits system or are saving for a deposit for a house.

The rest are dysfunctional & probably a high proportion of those 33% post on boards when you think about it.

Sure you can get a room in a houseshare for 200 euros a month? Even cheaper if you look. Electricity/gas/refuse bills split between 3/4 people is managable.

Theres really very little excuse to be living at home at the age of 34. Unless they have a genuine disability. They must want to live at home.

MagicMarker

phantom_lord wrote: »

C'mon. I think leaving at home later than 20 is just plain embarrassing.

I find stupid statements like these embarrassing.

Celly Smunt

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Sure you can get a room in a houseshare for 200 euros a month? Even cheaper if you look. Electricity/gas/refuse bills split between 3/4 people is managable.

Theres really very little excuse to be living at home at the age of 34. Unless they have a genuine disability. They must want to live at home.

but who cooks your meals ,pays for your food,gives you lifts,washes your clothes,lets you use their stuff etc etc? mammies house wins.

gurramok

phantom_lord wrote: »

C'mon. I think leaving at home later than 20 is just plain embarrassing.

You mean living?

Not all urbanites have that urge to move. Some in Dublin for example won't move out when at college as their college would be just down the road. They'd milk it while they can until they get a job when leaving college.

Also, you have to remember the reluctance to rent mentality. They'd rather stay at home and then buy skipping the renting option altogether.

fonecrusher1

pmcmahon wrote: »

but who cooks your meals ,pays for your food,gives you lifts,washes your clothes,lets you use their stuff etc etc? mammies house wins.

Yeah thats acceptable when your 18 - 25.

34 year old man living with mammy? Forget about women so.

Corsendonk

I imagine some of them are guys that moved out got married then got screwed on the divorce so moved back home when they hadnt a pot to piss in.

Also are you living at home if you moved your mother into the garden shed and called it a granny flat?

gambler31

Im 25 and live at home. And I often wonder if I'll ever get out. Im afraid to leave because my mother is an alcoholic.

A few years ago I moved out, but had to move back after 5 months because she just went on a downward spiral. She kicked my father out (he still hasnt came back) she stopped paying bills and was pretty much on a 5 month binge When Im here I keep an eye on her and dont let her get too out of hand.

Thats why I have never and will never so much as taste a drink, if I ever get to have kids Im not going to be a burden on them.

Celly Smunt

fonecrusher1 wrote: »

Yeah thats acceptable when your 18 - 25. 34 year old man living with mammy? Forget about women so.

there's room for your mammy and another woman in the kitchen,don't be so pessimistic

bleg

I don't live at home but it's my official residence. I switch homes nearly every 6 months I'd say for different reasons and it's handy to have all my documentation go to the one spot.

imitation

Dravokivich wrote: »

in contrast though... my folks in their early 20's 26 years ago were able to afford a resonable mortgage on a resonably priced house. With only 1 of them working.

They must not have been living in Ireland then, or at least must still be paying off there 15% interest mortgage.

Celly Smunt

imitation wrote: »

They must not have been living in Ireland then, or at least must still be paying off there 15% interest mortgage.

happened with mam and daddy with a 2% mortgage

Pepe LeFrits

27, jobless and back at home for months now. It really saps your mojo so it does.

The economics and conveniences of it are nice and all, but it's just not the way of things. I cannot wait to get back out on me own.

Wolfe Tone

pmcmahon wrote: »

there's room for your mammy and another woman in the kitchen,don't be so pessimistic

True. They could make competing dinners, ironing competitions, cleaning contests...


Competition is key to getting the full potential out of your women. Keeps them on their toes.

Dudess

Being away at college and funded by Mummy and Daddy isn't the same as moving out of home.

fonecrusher1

MUSSOLINI wrote: »

True. They could make competing dinners, ironing competitions, cleaning contests...


Competition is key to getting the full potential out of your women. Keeps them on their toes.

Is that all women are able to do?:rolleyes:

Think your forgetting about about knitting, heated discussions on fluffy kittens & frocks. The dear dear things.

smellslikeshoes

This is caused more by the boom than the recession, houses and rent are still way more expensive than they should be.

latenia

Time for some Seinfeld:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLKxpkozFmQ

00112984

Technically, doesn't everyone live "at home"?

Lemming

It's remarkable how so many people insert their own age as "I can't believe people are living at home beyond [insert age]". What matter is it to you whatever age people move out?

Different people live their lives differently to you, deal with it.

Incidentally, I wonder how quick a lot of people would be to call others losers when compared with ... say ... our next door neighbours in the UK where anecdotally many have moved out before they're 18 (uni students "living away from home" not included). Amusingly, most of those calling others losers would be considered losers in turn.

So, yeah. Whoooptyf*ckingdo.

myflipflops

MagicMarker wrote: »

How many of them are 34?

What about 30 or 35 year olds?

Weel, i presumed that stats were for males aged from 24-34 year as opposed to 34 year old males.

Would be a strange anomoly if 33% of Irish males aged exactly 34 still lived their parents!

Gunsfortoys

easyeason3 wrote: »

Meaning????

Ehhhhhh they aren't good enough for the women is what I meant *fiddles collar*.

myflipflops

Lemming wrote: »

It's remarkable how so many people insert their own age as "I can't believe people are living at home beyond [insert age]". What matter is it to you whatever age people move out?

Different people live their lives differently to you, deal with it.
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Not necessarily anyone judging. I just find the statistic hard to believe based on the people i know within that age range.

latenia

Just to add to the anecdotal evidence, out of maybe 40 men in their early to mid 30s I know well, 3 are at home. 1 due to redundancy, one was thrown out by his partner for philandering and the other is chronically lazy and unemployable (but a great guy all the same).
Maybe the reason people don't seem to know many men like this is because a lot of them are anti-social or have mental health issues that hinder friendships.

CorkMan

TBH in Spain/Portugal it is the norm for being to live at home until they are 30.

I am 23, since 19 I have been out of the house but have moved back in the last 6 months. I suppose the free dinners, etc have something to do with it

Jimmy Bottlehead

Gunsfortoys wrote: »

Just shows you men would rather have their mammies than the Irish women available these days.

Incest FTW

Dudess

Lemming wrote: »

It's remarkable how so many people insert their own age as "I can't believe people are living at home beyond [insert age]".

What particularly makes me laugh is 21-year-olds who are in college and still living with the folks passing those kinda judgements when they haven't the slightest clue as to whether they'll get a job after college and move straight out - certainly not looking that way now anyway.