I am about to turn 24, and I (am lucky enough to) still live with my parents whereas most of my friends have already "moved on." I live in a small town in the bible belt, and it seems like a good chunk of the people that just graduated college are now getting married to their high school sweetheart and having kids right off the bat. Some of my other high school friends (I didn't have a good college run) are now actuaries, accountants, and IT guys and are relatively comfortable with serious partners. Needless to say, I can't really relate to them at all anymore, unfortunately (nor would they really have time to get together regardless).
Idk I just kinda feel embarrassed about the state of my life as a person in their mid-twenties still living at home and I'm curious if anyone can relate. My parents aren't rich or anything like that, so they can't help me pay off my student debt or any of my medical bills, but they're giving me a place for free so I cannot complain. It seems like everywhere I go I can't get away from people (or even media in general) mocking the idea of living with your parents because you're a loser with mental health problems who can't pull yourself up by the bootstraps and start a company with your trust fund money or some shit
I'm in my mid-30s and I live at home. I had a place of my own for a while, but I don't really have much of a social life in this state (in a whole year, I had one friend over to that place once, and he was helping me move in lol). So I moved back home. Was going to go to grad school this year, but I got rejected from all the (top tier) schools I applied to (I may have set my sights too high lol). And then covid happened.
That said, I do have a decent job, so I could be on my own, but right now it makes no sense to move out just to be bored and lonely. I don't really have any social prospects here, so there's just no real point to living on my own until I can move somewhere new that's actually interesting. I do plan to do that once the pandemic is over, though--I'm getting really sick of being stuck in this rut. Not really embarrassed by it but I do feel like my life is slipping away right now.
I'm in my mid 30s and live in a major city and I definitely feel like my life is slipping away too. It's still just too awkward to try dating with the pandemic stuff. I still see a few friends here and there but we just drink beer, smoke weed, and watch tv because we have nowhere else to go really. So until the pandemic is really over you ain't missing shit, my friend.