(edit title) Average age for leaving home In Sweden Options

[JLondon]

What's the average age of leaving parents home in Sweden?
I'm curious as in the UK I have a number of friends in there late 20s living at their parents home.

[Opalnera]

Same here except if they go to university in another city move out faster.

[Puffin]

Huge difference between the big cities and other parts of Sweden

The big cities are similar to the UK owing to housing shortages

In other areas
- some kids leave home at 15-16 for gymnasiet (A-levels)and live in a dorm/student apartment - if the programme they want to do is not available locally
- going to uni - unless you are in Stockholm - most move out even if you are in commuting distance of home
- otherwise they move into a kommun flat in their early 20s and often buy a place in their mid-late twenties

[JLondon]

hard to see someone working in a supermarket earning enough to have their own acommodation

[jamesblish]

Why? Supermarket workers make good money. Really good if you count the overtime, weekends etc. And anyone can get a loan and buy a place. Not really hard at all. Anyone with a job can buy (almost) anything here.

[Puffin]

hard to see someone working in a supermarket earning enough to have their own acommodation

What do you mean???

A shop assistant makes 16,000-20,000 kr per month (approx £16-20K per year) - they are better off than newly qualified professionals such as teachers and nurses often as there are no student loans to pay off

[goawai]

I'm 19 and I've recently got a flat (rented), and I'm moving out next week.

Some people I know moved out when they were 15/16, because they started gymnasium in a different area, while others are in their early 20s and live at home. Don't know anyone above 23 who lives at home, but to be honest - when people move out depend on two things: either you move out when you have a job that can support your own household, or you move out because you study and get a student loan. And that usually happens before you turn 22.

Edit: if you earn ~10 000 (or even less) after taxes you can live in a flat without any major problems. The cheapest studio apartments usually have a rent of 2500kr. But then, of course, you will be living in a shit neighbourhood (all mid-size cities have atleast one or two "ghettos"), in a shitty apartment with little money left after paying all living expenses.

TL;DR i'd say the average age is 20.

[Emerentia]

Here is some statistic http://www.scb.se/Pages/TableAndChart____279859.aspx (in Swedish)

By the age of 18, 94 % of the girls and 96 % of the guys are living with their parents. By the age of 21, 45 % of the girls and 60 % of the guys live with their parents.

[dave.smith]

Property is so cheap here, it's a lot easier to move out. I sold my semi when I moved here and bought a FARM and still had money left over from the sale! Apartments are also generally better quality than the UK and much cheaper.

Of course, there is a catch: I am not in one of the 3 major cities, closest non-trivial town has a population of approx 60,000... So this may differ if you are looking in Stockholm for example

[cogito]

There seems to be an unusually high number of 40- 50-year-old men living with their mother.

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Just an absolutely useless statistic.

It all depends upon the circumstances surrounding the parents and children.

In retrospect, I can imagine moving in with my mother if my father had died before her, and I had neither married or my wife had died.

As it was my mother died well before my father, and it was his death which helped cause our divorce, and my ex-wife's suicide.

My older brother left home at 17 during WWII, and I followed in 1952 after graduating from college, and neither of us ever went back home.

[Puffin]

Here is some statistic http://www.scb.se/Pages/TableAndChart____279859.aspx (in Swedish)By the age of 18, 94 % of the girls and 96 % of the guys are living with their parents. ... (show full quote)

Here is some statistic http://www.scb.se/Pages/TableAndChart____279859.aspx (in Swedish)

By the age of 18, 94 % of the girls and 96 % of the guys are living with their parents. By the age of 21, 45 % of the girls and 60 % of the guys live with their parents. ... (hide full quote)

err - you do realise that at 18 Swedish kids are still in high school - you don't graduate high school until you are 19 in Sweden

Also the statistics do not necessarily tell the full story as when under 18s live away from home for the final years of high school (quite common in rural areas) then the apartment will be in parents name so the statistics will show them living with parents

[whoye]

Just an absolutely useless statistic.It all depends upon the circumstances surrounding the parents and children.In retrospect, I can imagine moving in with my mother if my fat ... (show full quote)

Just an absolutely useless statistic.

It all depends upon the circumstances surrounding the parents and children.

In retrospect, I can imagine moving in with my mother if my father had died before her, and I had neither married or my wife had died.

As it was my mother died well before my father, and it was his death which helped cause our divorce, and my ex-wife's suicide.

My older brother left home at 17 during WWII, and I followed in 1952 after graduating from college, and neither of us ever went back home. ... (hide full quote)

a deeply morbid story :-D why your father's death caused your ex-wife's suicide? was she shagging with him behind your back? tell us the full story

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Is this the kind of questioning that you are complaining about me not answering, PageyGB?

[*Trowbridge H. Ford*]

Despite your vile questions, Whoye - what should have been not only taken down, but your dismissal from this site if it had any moderation of what loons like you suggest - I think I should answer them because they do raise legitimate questions about leaving and going back home.

My wife went completely off the rails after her father and my father died while I was obtaining early retirement from my employer. She put a great premium on being increasingly connected to people who were someone, and these events completely broke her down.

I should have done more to see that she was institutionalized until she recovered - what might have resulted in a slightly earlier divorce and her going back to live with her mother. I doubt that it would have saved our marriage. By that time, it made no difference in my life as both my parents were dead.