It used to be a rite of passage to move out of home in your twenties, but now it is becoming increasingly normal to move back in with your parents.
Gemma Upson-McPike is just about to turn 27, and she’s moving back to suburbia to live with her family because of the surging rental costs.
“I realised that if I kept renting, I would never have any savings. If I stayed at home with my parents for even six months, I could save $10,000,” she told news.com.au.
She’s not alone in this decision. According to comparison website Finder, 1 in 10 Australians have either moved back home with their parents or had their adult child return in the last year.
Ms Upson-McPike used to live in the Melbourne suburb of Malvern, just eight kilometres from the city, but now she has an almost two-hour daily commute.
The young Aussie is currently working part-time, and her salary hovers around $60,000 per year, but it isn’t enough to support herself and certainly not after her landlord brutally increased her rent.
She has unleashed about her circumstances on TikTok and her video has already amassed over 25,000 likes and 400,000 views.
“This is not the plan I had for 27-year-old me, but that is how bad the rental crisis is at the m...
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