So you have two choices: continue living on your own and paying rent which is probably costing you around $800 - $1200 or move back home and pay nothing? If you move back home, you can, will, and won't: 1. Appreciate the presence of your parents, the time is quite limited, more than you realize [will] 2. Save any money that would have gone towards rent [can] 3. Make a plan to become profitable by X date with an exten…
I'm curious how you came up with that rent values ($800 - $1200). I'm in Western Europe, a medium sized city, and I can't get a studio without 1000 EUR. Similarly, I imagine that in most places in California, that amount won't get you much of a home.
$800-$1200 is probably roughly either what they paid for rent when they were in their 20s or what they pay for rent today. My guess would be the former because people tend to default to thinking that their reality is someone else’s reality.