Why do some people choose to live next door to their parents?
For many of us, moving away from the family home is a rite of passage, with the idea of cutting the apron strings an appealing one.'They help look after our pet tortoise'and her partner moved into the house next door to her parents Ken and Janet three years ago.
Aside from finding it"comforting" to live where she grew up, there's another benefit to having some familiar faces next door. Although the house in Charmouth Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, needed redecorating, Wendy and her husband Jim thought it was worth taking on"because it was very cheap for that road". House price aside, Wendy's husband was also"absolutely happy" to move in next door to his in-laws.A gate between the two houses meant Wendy's children could visit their grandparents easily
"My daughter Katy, when I used to tell her off about something, she'd say 'I'm going to see Nan!' and off she'd go. It was very safe for her to do so when she was four or five years old as there was a little gate between the house's two yards. We never had any major problems whatsoever, everything was advantage."The living arrangements were also beneficial for Wendy's parents.
"People will ask you why you're doing it, whether you can cope and the fact you're not a kid any more. But when times go bad, who do you turn to? When the chips are down, you probably go to your parents. I don't think that's unhealthy, I think it's quite healthy. You need that social support.", from Smethwick in the West Midlands, have been living next door to Inderjit's parents for five years.
"Originally, we weren't keen on the idea because we wanted to move to a different area but we looked at the house and the more we looked at it, the more it started to grow on us. The fact it was next door to the family meant if we needed childcare, we wouldn't have to travel to drop the kids off. We just knew that mum and dad would be next door."
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