Swedish age of leaving parental home How to use the material This post for social media is about Swedes on average leaving their parental home at a younger age than the European average and the factors that may influence this. You can download images from Image Bank Sweden and use in your post.
Please make sure to include the names of the photographers of the photos you use.
Captions Moving out at a young age? No problem – here's the Swedish recipe for survival:
🍝 Meal of the day (every day): pasta with ketchup🪑 Furniture: IKEA chic✨ Life skill: Make sure you live relatively close to your parents, so that you can go home for Sunday dinners. 😂
The average Swede leaves their parental home at the age of 21.8. The same figure for the European Union as a whole is 26.3 years.
Swedes are encouraged to be independent from an early age, but there are obviously many factors that influence the decision to leave the family home. For example, Swedes have access to student loans along with a small grant that make it possible to move to our own place if we study at university. Also, here it's not uncommon that young people move in with a friend or a partner. But not all is perfect. Housing shortages and high costs are challenges we face here, too.
When do you plan to move out? 📦
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