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🗓️ 29 March 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Living with your parents is so hot right now, with more adults doing it now than at any other time in the modern era. First, we hang out with a member of Gen Z who’s moved back in with the folks. Then, a closer look at the trend with Donna Butts of Generations United. This episode was produced by Amanda Lewellyn, edited by Jolie Myers, fact-checked by Laura Bullard, engineered by Rob Byers and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Dan from Nashville, Tennessee.
0:03.0	Hey, remember that time we went to Nashville because we heard it was a really hot housing market
0:07.5	and we were like, call us if you know anything about it.
0:10.0	And then you did?
0:11.0	There's not a chance that we're going to buy a house in Nashville.
0:14.6	Now it's honestly kind of as possible like I mean I don't have any expectation of owning
0:19.6	whole in Nashville. So yeah the cost of living in Nashville is crazy.
0:24.1	You said, oh my God, it is hard.
0:26.8	My name is Leymah Ahmed.
0:28.2	I am calling from Nashville, Tennessee.
0:31.0	I am 23 years old and I'm a member of the downtrodden
0:36.0	says that is currently living with their parents and
0:39.8	Down trod at 23 in places like Nashville young people can't afford to buy houses so they're moving in with the people who already did their parents.
0:49.2	This is happening in America more than ever in the modern era,
0:52.8	multi-generational housing is back,
0:55.2	and the story of that is coming up on today explained. Okay, mint, mint, mint, mint, okay. You wouldn't pay $15 for a cold brew, and you never
1:10.4	spend $250 to see a movie.
1:12.6	So why are you paying so much for your cell phone plan?
1:15.3	Mint Mobile offers premium wireless plans for $15 a month.
1:18.8	That's...
1:19.8	Hey Jimmy, honey, do you want pasta?
1:22.2	Hey mom, I'm recording right now.
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