I love my parents!! I lived rent free for approx 3 years until I purchased my house. My sisters do so while they live at home, but my parents do except them to pay for things & do things around the house.
As for the bachelors part... I haven't seen any guys in the City worth Bringing home to mom & dad. Not what rent.com is looking at, but there is def a shortage of Decent single guys, at least the ones that aren't drunk in the bars every weekend. Do you know how hard it is to find a guy w/o kids in the city? Very Hard!

I think a lot of these guys are doing it because of the tough job market, not because of the housing collapse.

By the way, unless you have really cool parents, this is a very high price to pay--I wouldn't consider it free housing. Then again, I moved away from home at 18 and, other than a few wks during summers from college, have not lived at home for a decade. The reason for this? No amount of "free" housing would make up for the lack of privacy or freedom. Not to mention that my parents used us as free household labor on the weekends. To be fair, I'd make my kids do chores and errands, too.

Mom & dad made us do our own laundry, buy personal items & pay our own insurance, phone & other things. I always picked up beer & wine & other things for the house too. Plus we always had to clean the kitchen after dinner.

I recently offered a room in my new home to my grown son and at no charge. The offer includes his dog as well (a great dog!) but not the girlfriend (no where near as great).

Not specifically stated though is the caveat that the offer is limited to the time it should take him to get established in a new area (read: not unlimited) and the expectation that he will pitch in with all sorts of things around the property (I have a list!).

So far, he hasn't shown up.

Since i moved to Baltimore in 1994, i have heard many women complain about how hard it is for their Son/Brother,Nephew/Son-in law, to find a job.And much of this was before e reccession.

The interestingthing is that i never heard anyone say the same thing abut thier Daughters. No offence to my own gender, but im guessing that the percentage of adult women living with thier parents is much lower..And in my experience, the women that do live with thier parents tend to look after thier parents or help around the house.

I used to work at a laundromat.And i knew many 50-70 yer old women that did thier son 's laundry.I thought it strange that they had had children so late in life.Then i realised that they were washing their 30 year old son's cloths

As far as single women outnumbering single men in Baltimore, i think that the story behind this is very sad.

I am not trying to be funny when i say that it is probably due to the large amounts of men incarcerated in places like Hagerstown and other prisons outsideof Baltimore. Most people in Baltimore arent proffessionals who live in Fed Hill.