Thread: Millennials moved back to their teenage bedrooms during the pandemic

For millions of young Americans, the pandemic has been a time machine back to the early aughts.

By July 2020, 52% of 18 to 29 years olds, or 26.6 million adults, were now residing with a parent, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis — the highest number since the Great Depression.

In New York, some 300,000 left the city. Many of those people found themselves living in time capsules: lovingly preserved childhood bedrooms, plastered in posters and magazine cut-outs of boy bands and James Cameron blockbusters, and tricked out with décor from the Myspace era.

Many are still there.

Jess Cohen, 39, was one of them. She left her Manhattan apartment during the pandemic to move back in with her family in Fresh Meadows, Queens. Her modest bedroom hadn’t changed since high school, two decades ago.

A "Titanic" poster, a Barbie-sized Kate Winslet doll, the sign-in board from her Sweet Sixteen, stuffed animals and glass knickknacks from a school formal where just as she had left them.

The girlish pink walls were the cherry on top of what feels like a "Blossom" meets "Clarissa Explains It All" retrospective.

"I originally thought I would only stay for a couple of weeks, but with COVID still out of control, I just stayed, ‘Titanic’ posters and everything!" Cohen, who is a public-school teacher leading class remotely, said. "Thank goodness for virtual backgrounds on Zoom because teaching would be super embarrassing without them."

Save for some nicer bamboo bedding that she brought with her, Cohen hasn’t updated her childhood bedroom at all.

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Originally Posted by JayJ350

It's funny how girls never seem to update their rooms, always leaving a bunch of high school chit around.