Nearly 40% Of Young Adult Californians Live With Their Parents. Here’s Everything To Know About Them

Speaker 1: 00:00 Nearly 40% of California, 18 to 34 year old still live with their parents. And that's not a shock to anyone with adult children struggling to afford rent here. But what's it like to date when you're in your twenties and still living at home and where do you get intimate if your mom and dad are just down the hall? As part of our California dream project? Cal Matters reporter Matt Levin asked Younger Californians how they're adapting to this new normal Speaker 2: 00:29 [inaudible]. It's a Saturday night at Patsy's Irish pub and mission Ba ho a wealthy part of Orange County. No, no that's, this looks like a lot of other California bars in 2019 off key karaoke accredit people vaping outside in loads and loads of 20 and 30 year olds who still live with their parents. I'm here right now getting drunk and my mom Jacob Timer timers 24 he lives with his mom and Stepdad, so does his wife, who right now is on the dance floor with the rest of his family. We had an apartment here for two years, but I was spending like 30 k a year in rent and I could have, I could have had that in my savings or now in this part of Orange County, 55% of 18 to 34 year olds live with their parents. One of the highest rates in the state dropped an IPA randomly inside Patsy's and you're bound to splash and millennials still living with their parents like remi. Speaker 3: 01:19 My older sister and her boyfriend also live with us and my son Speaker 2: 01:23 is this 28 remys 25 and says her parents invited her and her boyfriend to live with them and her sister and her sister's boyfriend, even though it's a pretty full house for him. He say she and her boyfriend can be intimate pretty much like any other couple. Speaker 3: 01:37 We have a downstairs bedroom. Everyone's upstairs. They really stay out of our way and don't really like care. What we do Speaker 4: 01:44 in my day when never took a boy home, never. Speaker 5: 01:47 Helen Fisher is a senior research professor at the Kinsey Institute who studies love and sex. She says parents are a lot more permissive these days. Speaker 4: 01:55 Some people will be very pleased with it because they get to know their child in a new way and they get to know some of the people that they are going around with their helicopter parents. Speaker 5: 02:03 But not every parent is okay with it, which means some young Californians living at home are resorting to a tried and true form of privacy. A Hyundai Sedan, Speaker 1: 02:13 small, very small come that really Speaker 5: 02:18 Vicky and her boyfriend Logan stand in a parking lot at Sacramento state university across from the football field. Vickie and Logan aren't their real names. We changed them for obvious reasons. Speaker 3: 02:27 When we first started dating, I guess, um, we would spend a lot of time here. We would park, we've probably stayed to like three in the morning Speaker 5: 02:36 in Sacramento County, about a third of 18 to 34 year old, still live at home. Vicky is 22 in college and her parents are uncomfortable with the thought of Logan staying over for the night. Speaker 3: 02:46 I would say I was studying and I dunno, they probably think I'm such a good student. Speaker 5: 02:51 Vicki Logan's parking spot is actually the exception, not the rule. Sex Researcher Fisher says public sex is likely down among millennials and generation z because sexist just down for those age groups overall and in an expensive state like California moving out is no guarantee. Your love life. William Speaker 2: 03:08 crew, Ian Baker works two jobs here in Orange County, one of them at this bowling alley. He's 29. Uh, I've been out of my mom's for a little over a year now. And how many dates have you gone on in that year? Absolutely zero. Ian has two roommates. He pays about $700 a month in rent living with my parents. It actually wasn't that hard to try to meet girls and whatnot. Honestly, it became harder when I moved out just because of the fact that in order to move out, you know, I had to start working two jobs. The irony isn't lost on Ian, but he does have a step up on one of his roommates. The one who lives in the living room. Well, I mean, like I said, at least I have a door. He doesn't. So I think it's a little bit harder for him in Orange County. I'm Matt Levin. Speaker 6: 03:53 [inaudible].