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When should you fly the nest? Here are the Europeans living longest with their parents

Amid rising property prices in Europe, the average age to leave the parental home is 26, but there's a huge north-south gap in Europe, with people in Spain, Italy, Croatia and Greece peaking over 30.

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00:00Too old to live with your parents? Let's take a look at the stats.
00:09What is the right age to fly the nest? Well, the answer depends on where you're looking on the map.
00:16In Finland the average is as early as 21, in Denmark it's 22, in Estonia and Sweden 23.
00:23The EU average however is 26. Interestingly it stayed basically the same over the past 20 years
00:30or so without huge fluctuations. In general, people move out earlier in northern, central and
00:37Baltic Europe, while youngsters living in southern and eastern nations stick around much longer.
00:44Take Italy, Spain and Greece for example, where most don't hit the road till they're 30 or more.
00:52Or Croatia, which takes the top spot with 31.5 years on average. However, as it often happens,
01:01stats cannot be explained without looking at the economic side, which says that in countries where
01:07young people leave their parents later, such as Greece, Croatia, Spain and Italy, the youth employment
01:13rate is also lower than the EU average. The lowest youth employment rate across the block belongs to
01:21Italy with 47.6%, followed by Romania at 52% and Bulgaria at 52.7%.
01:2911.4%,
01:3010.4%.
01:3011.7%
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