I think that young people who move fairly often or don’t feel settled will use their parent’s address. It’s easier than changing and forwarding mail.
I think it happens more often than you think. Think about how many parents still pay for phones, car insurance and other incidentals for their college graduated children.
It’s a pain to take a day off work to get your car inspection, change the title and licenses. Change the address on credit cards, bank accounts and other bills that don’t change when you move addresses.
My kid has had 3 long term relationships in her adult after college life. In every single one, the parents owned the cars they drove, paid for the cell phone they used. Those vehicles were inspected in the state they were registered, the state the parents lived in, not the state the kid lived in.
I was the mean parent who made my child become an adult by making them register the car they drove in their name. It meant taking off work, when they had very limited time off to spend the day changing over or renewing licenses.
I think we understate how parents today help and enable their children from becoming complete adults. Because it’s not that hard for us parents to do, so we help our children.
Rant over lol!