Your place or mine? The realities of dating when you can't afford to move out

"Imagine trying to watch Netflix and chill while your father sits beside you on the couch. Even worse, imagine overhearing your parents having sex or your parents hearing you."

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The cost of living crisis is impacting on what we’re buying in the supermarket and what we’re paying for utilities as well as on ever-escalating rents and house prices. But what about our romantic lives? New research by the online dating app Bumble reveals that it’s also changing the rules of the dating game.

It’s all because young people are forced to live at home for longer. Figures published by Eurostat earlier this year show that 61.4% of 18- to 34-year-olds in Ireland still live with their parents. That’s up from 44.6% in 2014.