Trend among Belarusian Zoomers and Millennials: more and more young people are returning to live with their parents
While complete independence, for which people were ready to work irregular hours, was once in vogue, a new type of downshifting is now approved among young people — living with parents. More and more 25- and 30-year-old Belarusians are returning to the parental nest after unsuccessful attempts to live independently.
The trend is relevant in Belarus, Russia, and Kazakhstan. Screenshot: Threads
“I am 30 years old, I moved in with my mother, and I am not ashamed. I don't have an apartment, a car, I'm not in a relationship, but I've managed to live in different countries, go for a winter in Asia, and mature mentally,” Belarusian Diana introduces her biography.
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The girl decided on such a step because, in her opinion, this way she will be able to achieve her goals set for 2026 faster.
“First on the list is to update equipment for filming,” — Diana is engaged in ritual services, but at the same time she maintains a blog and further wants to earn a living exclusively by creating content both for bloggers and for herself.
Screenshot: Instagram @diana.gliese
But globally, the girl dreams of stability and peace, which she was previously deprived of precisely in pursuit of complete independence.
Belarusian Ksenia also returned to her mother's house, exchanging the capital for a village. In one of her videos, she ironizes: “Don’t envy me, but I no longer have to rent an apartment for $400.”
Ksenia started from scratch studying to be a nutritionist, and with the new workload, it would have been harder for her to earn for rent. That's why she decided to save money by living with her parents.
Screenshot: TikTok @ksenieh4
Also, after moving in with her mother, Ksenia managed to lose weight from 71 to 52 kilograms. Now, in her blog, she shares proven healthy recipes and her own principles for weight reduction.
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Polina graduated from the Belarusian State Economic University in 2024 and subsequently couldn't afford Minsk rent either, choosing to return to her parents in the village of Shemetovo — she shared her forced step in the comments to Ksenia's video.
More and more similar stories are emerging, with Zoomers and Millennials themselves citing economic problems as the reason: the cost of rent, especially in the capital, is disproportionate to salaries. The same can be said about property purchase prices.
“One cannot survive alone today,” concludes young people from ordinary families.
In the comments, older people criticize this approach and call it infantile, to which Zoomers and Millennials recall the experience of some European countries — for example, Italy, where prolonged cohabitation with parents under one roof, sometimes across several generations, is the norm.
However, a few note that it's good to have a place to return to and if the family is adequate. Otherwise, in the worst case, one could end up on the street.
By the way, among Zoomers and Millennials who had enough financial literacy to save money for purchasing a modest, but their own, house in a Belarusian village, another trend is common — Grandma core. This is a peaceful, slow life in the village, but without peasant chores, when there's no need to weed dozens of potato beds. Exclusively flowers and a small garden, knitting, pets for pleasure, and relaxation.
Some don't hold back and decide to buy an entire rural school.
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