A new study from The Melbourne Institute has produced evidence that living out of home is really hard, expensive, and hunger-inducing.
A new study from The Melbourne Institute has produced the obvious.
Two years before moving out, about 12 per cent of young Australians were having to ask friends and families for financial help. And after moving out, that number more than doubled to about 25 per cent.“
Using information accrued from normative home-leavers between 2001 and 2009, the study found that 10% of young people reportedly forewent food on a semi-regular basis, neglecting to use the money 25% borrow from their friends on vital foodstuff and instead probably funnelling it into shitty cocaine habits. Apparently it has taken four years to publish the findings; tangible statistics that you can bring to your parents next time they take you out for a nice dinner that becomes your sustenance for a week.
Speaking with ABC Radio, Dave Ribar, a visiting professor of economics at the University of North Carolina, said that, “What we found was that young Australians who had left their parents’ homes reported significantly more hardships in the years immediately after they left their parents’ homes.
So for instance, two years before leaving home, young Australian men and women went without meals about two per cent of the time, so almost never. After they had moved out, a year after moving out, about 10 per cent of them were going without meals.
Two years before moving out, about 12 per cent of young Australians were having to ask friends and families for financial help. And after moving out, that number more than doubled to about 25 per cent.“
Ribar also stated that evidence from the study suggests women have a harder time keeping up with payments. He very wisely didn’t care to hazard a guess as to why.
When asked what could be done with the findings of his research to improve the lives of the unwashed, unfed youths of Australia who wish vampires were real, are perpetually peckish and have nice friends who’ll help them out from time to time, Ribar replied, “There’s nothing in the research that suggests that this is necessarily bad or unusual.”
It’s just a thing that happened one time in the early aughts to a bunch of people [everyone], some of whom had the foresight to turn it into a television show; to make lemonade with the lemons life gifted unto them, instead of eating them or exchanging them for legal tender.
via The ABC
