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When Bec and Sam Bartley posted a clip on social media playfully describing their life after having moved in with Bec’s parents on the Kent coast, they didn’t expect it to go viral. But more than 14 million views later, it is clear they struck a chord with the increasing number of twenty-and thirty-somethings ending up back under Mum and Dad’s roof. Desperate for a place of their own, the married couple struggled for years to put money away for their first home while renting a one-bed flat in London. But Bec, 34, and Sam, 30, finally bit the bullet last July, swapping the capital for a slower …