This troper is 26 and still lives with his parents, and the only one of his siblings that still does.

One of this troper's gaming friends is almost 50 and lives in his parents' basement. Another guy at the game table lived with his parents (but not the basement) until their deaths. However, there are medical justifications for both. The first has inherited heath issues, and the second was unpaid caretaker for a mother with severe dementia.

This troper (Ronfar) was born in 1982 and lives with (and is supported by) his parents, although not in the basement. This is because he's BrilliantButLazy as well as TheSlacker and refuses to get a job because he doesn't want to end up living in a {{Dilbert}} cartoon.

This Troper lives with her parents cause she is pretty much the second parent for her younger siblings, and her friend does cause he doesn't seem to be able to look after himself, and I find it soooooooooo cute cause I always feel like I want to look after him, hes a woobie, and he's also very good looking, but acts like a kid, and I love it...

I'm 25 and living at home, and hating every second of it while taking steps to move out as soon as possible. I have no qualms working a cubicle job if it means going to my own place at the end of the day where I can happily fuck my boyfriend in the middle of the living room should the mood strike.

I may not exactly fit in this trope since I'm only 19, but I still live with my parents and feel like I somehow failed at life (even though I work at a job that few people would willingly do and am going to college). I keep wishing I could find a better paying job so I can get the hell out of here before I actually DO qualify for this trope.

This troper lives in the spare room across from his old bedroom. He has also repeatedly refused to move ''into'' the basement, because dammit, he still has dignity.

"Dignity and an empty sack are worth the sack." -- Ferengi Rule of Acquisition #109

This troper lived with his parents six years after high school graduation before moving into the apartment he has now, five years of which had him being driven to college and back. The room where I stayed in the basement used to be my parents' bedroom until they moved me out of my old room, which they've used as their bedroom ever since, around the time I was in high school.

This troper is almost 20 and still lives with her parents mainly because her job doesn't pay enough for her to afford her own place.

This troper is 20 and lives with his mother, partially because it is cheaper while he goes to college but more because she is sick and can really use the help around the house.

This troper is 23 and lives at home still. As do my 25 year old sisters. We all live with our folks for 3 reasons. 1) School. Our house located very close to the local college. 2) It's cheaper and we help pay our folks' bills. 3) We love them.

I'm a lot older than my 20s and me and my widowed mom live together. Individually, we'd be barely scraping by, but with our combined incomes, we can afford much more comfortable existences for ourselves. We get along (most of the time) and share expenses. I'll take being able to pay my rent/bills and having a little left over for myself over falling behind and getting hounded by bill collectors just to keep a few judgmental people from sneering at me.

I'm almost 24 myself, and I still live with my parents simply because I'm unemployed and I simply cannot afford to move out on my own, alongside being much cheaper to pool our money together for expenses. I don't pay rent but I DO earn my keep by performing housekeeping and maintenance duties alongside managing expenses and paying bills. Ironically, the only reason I even live in the basement is because my dad built the damn room--and I didn't even WANT it.

This 28-year old troper is one, partly due to difficulty finding employment, partly my Asperger's syndrome. Several of my cousins also lived at home for a long time, one literally in the basement. My little sister was until she went off to graduate school.

This troper still lives with his parents, due to not being able to afford an appartment, he pays rent and gets 10% off groceries.

This 23-year-old troper, for many, many reasons (I'm a student, my job doesn't pay well and I only work about 15 hours a week, I have a mental illness, etc.) still lives in her parents' house. I do pay rent, and given that I live in an upper-middle class suburb, it's a tiny fraction of what I'd be paying for even a cheap apartment around here.

This 29-year old troper's job requires him to be on the road nine months out of the year. The remaining three months, I stay in my old room at my dad's. Even if I were working local, I probably wouldn't change the arrangement; I have no plans to ever marry or raise a family, and what's the point of my own domicile otherwise? (At least that's what my dad tells me; ever notice a lot of real life BasementDwellers have needy, co-dependent parents?)

This troper lives at home, after living on my own for all of college (Apartment and everything) because 10 years of unemployment is not conducive to owning a home. Now that I have several job prospects, I can plan for buying a home in a year or so.

I'm 20 years old, and am the only brother that lives with my mother. However, I'm in my second year of a full-time full-pay job, and am responsible for paying at least half of the bills, sometimes more. I don't move out because my mother and I would be running really ragged living by ourselves, and we work at the same place. The only reason I don't dwell in the basement is because there isn't one in my home (I like basements, but they're not common in South American countries).

This troper's uncle is an example, except he lives in the attic. He is over almost 60 and still living with my grandmother who is nearly 90. He works as a taxi driver, but he has INSANE skills with electronics and is an excellent engineer. He modified a remote control car to ACT LIKE A HELICOPTER. He used to fix military planes in the army. A real shame.

I'm turning 21 in a month, in my third year of university, and I've been working a part-time job for the last seven months (as well as a handful of odd jobs in my second year at uni). Ever since late high school, I've been keen on moving out of home and learning to take care of myself, since I'm a MommasBoy who barely knows how to take care of myself (I can cook reasonably well, do the laundry, and iron, but it's ''very'' rare that I do). However, in the last week or two I've realised that there's nothing wrong with living at home in your early twenties, and if you have GoodParents who love you, willingly pay for your education, and refuse to let you pay board, then it'd be ungrateful to move out. I'm going to give up some of my extra-curricular activities (I'm vice-president of a theatre society, and the plays I do have devastating effects on my marks) to concentrate on my schoolwork and spend more time with my folks, and not think about moving out for another couple of years, since I know I'd miss them too much if I left home. However, I won't stay at home past 25 unless I become unemployed, since there's a difference between gratefully accepting your parents' hospitality and potentially outstaying your welcome.

Yeah, plenty of people are still living at home in their 20s. Edgy lived at home till he was 25, graduated from college, and a month away from getting married.

This Troper is 26 years old and living with his parents, rent-free. He is going to school full-time. He is planning to move on-campus to make more friends during the remainder of his college career, but will probably move back home upon graduating while he looks for a job. He was out of school for a bit but was working and paying rent, so was never {{NEET}}.