Well the cost of living is screwing up mine and my sons life plans. He moved into student accommodation in the centre of the city during covid so he wouldn't bring it home to me as I'm classes as clinically vulnerable. Then all his flat mates ended up stuck at their homes so he was on his own a lot and ended up backwards and forwards between there and home. So when that tenancy was up he decided to move out closer to home to a smaller and cheaper place with his friend, but that tenancy ends at the end of June and he graduates in July. He had planned to move into his own place in the city centre to cut down his expenses of having to commute to his job (only a fast food place but better than nothing!) but we crunched the numbers and it turned out he'd have to work 40 hours a week every week just to cover bills and groceries when his current contract is for 4 hours (Its changing once he's graduated). So after 2 years of me basically being an empty nester, he's moving back in. He's going to be contributing to the household bills as my benefits which have been keeping a roof over my head (no food on the table though!) will be cut, so he'll cover that short fall and pay extra to cover energy cost increases, plus decent groceries (I've been living on lots of pasta, potatoes, onions and milk based things, hardly any veg or meat as it's been too expensive) and making some home improvements he thinks we need. Then he's going to start saving as much of wages as possible to buy things like a bike for commuting, taking driving lessons so we can have someone who drives in our family apart from my dad (who's nearly 70 so I hate calling on that daddy's taxi) and my sister (who's busy with her own things and 2 kids!), then saving up an emergency fund so that they can in theory eventually move out.