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Is It A Functional Society When So Many 30-Somethings Live At Home?

The argument is always, “Well, I’m saving money for a house,” but is that the actual argument?

Ted Bauer
2 min readNov 18, 2024

I watched this video yesterday while deciding to avoid church:

I have written about this concept once before, too:

There isn’t a ton more to add to the discourse now. In 2016, we hit the highest point in 75 years of early-30-somethings living at home. COVID and the economic realities therein (and how the housing market became a playground for the rich, even more than the housing market is normally a playground for the rich) made it worse, and now people are still staggering out of that. As we know, most of the elections globally in 2024 were a repudiation of COVID-era leadership. Maybe the plight of…

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

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I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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