The Guardian Short Cuts Blog has posted a survival guide for adults still living with their parents.
Facing tighter mortgage criteria rising rents and a difficult job market, a round of a quarter 20-34-year-olds in the UK are living with mum and dad - the highest number since records began in 1996, the website says.
The most recent New Zealand statistics available show just over 20 per cent of 24-year-olds were living with their parents at the time of the 2006 census.
The Guardian’s five-point plan includes advice like "don't let yourself go into 'child mode' just because it's the house you grew up in" and "in the darker moments of parent-child co-habitation, when you see in your parents' flawed behaviour a dark portent of your own future failure; have an exit plan and aim to have the right but not to use it".
