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A woman on a salary of £40,000 who lives at her childhood home in Bournemouth has claimed her parents still have to bail her out each month.

Sian Teasdale, 30, said "rarely a month goes by" where she does not ask her parents for between £100 to £500 for anything from bills to buying her lunches at work.

An account director at a digital marketing agency in Bournemouth, Ms Teasdale said she earns between £30,000 and £40,000 per year depending on commission - a monthly average take-home pay of around £2,200.

But Ms Teasdale said despite earning well above the UK average, for her it is still "not enough to cover even the basics".

"This isn't about frivolous millennials who don't know how to budget; the cost of living is just so painfully high that sometimes even basic expenses are out of reach," she wrote in Grazia magazine.

She said: "The reality is that even earning that much, it can be hard nowadays to lead a normal, and in no way extravagant, 30-something lifestyle. It’s embarrassing, but not unusual."

In an article for the website, the account director said she moved from London to Bournemouth eighteen months ago in a bid to save for her own home as the cost of living in the capital was too high.

But after finding the cost of rent in Bournemouth too high, she moved back into her childhood bedroom at a reduced rent.

She claims that by the time she has paid rent, done some food shopping, settled her phone bill and insured, taxed and put petrol in my car, "there’s not a great deal left". She does not have a credit card and is already into her overdraft, she adds.

Ms Teasdale wrote: "I work in a very sociable industry and there’s an unspoken pressure to join in with Friday night drinks, and I do need to buy clothes for work. Apart from that, I don’t splash out on luxuries.

"I don’t have a gym membership, I do my own nails, I colour my own hair, and fancy holidays abroad are a pipe-dream. The odd mini-break with friends is as much as I can afford right now."

Ms Teasdale's dad works in hospitality and her mum is a housewife. She said although they are financially comfortable, they are not wealthy.

The account director said she is sporadically putting money towards a deposit. Her goal is to have saved a deposit and increased her salary in the next couple of years, so she can move out.