"Kippers" - A New Acronym
Kids In Parents Pockets Eroding Retirement Savings.
It seems that more and more people who are well into their thirties are still living at home with their parents. What are our views on this? I scattered my energies half way across the world for many, many years , but I would often go back to my parents home to recharge for a month or two. In fact, in the late eighties I lived with them for two and a half years while selling TimeShare out of a Leicester Square office.
I was a K.I.P.P.E.R., and I've no doubt some wag will say I still am today, but I felt at the time, and still feel now, that this gave me the strength and confidence to test myself against the world, knowing I had a safe place to come back to, that there would always be a roof over my head, and I would never be turned away. In a weird way this knowledge supported me in putting myself through those character-building adventures.
So is it the fact that there's always a place to crash, wherever you've been and whatever you've done, or is it having a loving, supportive family that builds strength of character, even if they're several thousand miles away?
I'd be interested in others opinions on this.