Bristolians Discuss: Would you let your adult children live at home with you?

With house prices going up, would you be open to allowing your adult children and their family continue to live in your home?

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00:00I don't think they've got a lot of choice, to be brutally honest with you.

00:04I was looking in the estate agent's windows earlier, and lettings and sales, and it is

00:09massively expensive.

00:11You know, one-bedroom flats at, you know, £1,000 a month, and more.

00:17You know, if you're starting out in life and you're working in the NHS and earning £28,000

00:22a year, how can you afford to live?

00:24No choice.

00:25It's horrible.

00:26I was very lucky, I'm of the generation where we could buy a house, where it wasn't much

00:30more than paying rent, buying a mortgage, I'm of that lucky generation, if you like.

00:36But that doesn't mean we're all rich.

00:38I haven't come out of it with loads of money in the bank, you know, I'm still renting at

00:42my age now.

00:43So yeah, it's pretty awful that they have to stay with their parents and sit like this,

00:48who it is.

00:49If that was needed, obviously housing is expensive and difficult to come by.

00:54I can't imagine, personally, sort of not having a home, provided I had the space, to adult children.