Moving back in with mum and dad

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With more adults returning to the family home, we ask, what is it rea

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Woman's Own Magazine

21 March, 2023

The London Magazine

The boomerang household

WITH ADULT OFFSPRING RETURNING TO THE FAMILY NEST IN GREATER NUMBERS THAN EVER, THE LONDON TERRACE HOUSE NEEDS TO ADAPT TO MULTI-GENERATIONAL LIVING, EXPLAINS SERENA FOKSCHANER

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‘help! my husband’s retiring and i’m not ready to share the remote’ (or the house)

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Move over, shirley valentine!

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