Home, Cheap HomeLooking to hit young adult consumers where they live? Try their parents' houses.
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En route to the driveway, where their little graduate student isproudly unveiling his brand-new Passat, Mom grumbles to Dad thatBilly isn't socking away enough for retirement. But Billyenvisions a rosy financial future, so long as he saves by livingunder his parents' roof. Some 18 million 20- to 34-year-oldscurrently dub their parents roommates, according to AmericanDemographics. While such living arrangements were considered a signof serious slackerdom 10 years ago, today's twentysomethingssee living at home not as a sign of failure, but as a financiallyrational decision.
"The stigma [of living at home] is gone for the mostpart," says David Morrison, president of Twentysomething Inc.,a strategic planning and marketing research firm in Radnor,Pennsylvania. "Parents still feel it, but graduates donot."
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