... for adult males and females to live with their parents? In movies, when someone says "He/she still lives with his/her parents" everyone makes a disgusting face. It's a pretty common thing in the rest of the world. Hmm...
shareBecause, if you’re living in Mom’s basement in the US, you’re probably a LOT like the Warlock character in Live Free Or Die Hard, surrounded by Star Wars action figures and making one-word useless “posts” on MC like “Yeap.”
The good news is that you will never reproduce yourself.
we are good proles here, trained to enforce a rigorous standard of consumption, ruthless independence. or... be shunned by the herd.
we're all living the fantasy of building a cabin in the woods, shooting rabbits for dinner, clearing trees & planting corn. or its 21st century equivalent.
It's very common now in major, overcrowded cities like London, where housing, both rental and to buy, is in a crisis of not enough supply for the demand and thus so overpriced that it's now reckoned that it could take someone on a low wage job 200 years to save the money for a deposit on an average-price house. Rent is also incredibly high, and the social housing option, also overstretched, doesn't even give the time of day to single, childless people. Many people are having no choice but to remain in their childhood home with parents, even if working full time and making an income.
I don't see anything wrong with it as long as everyone's okay with their situation.
Real estate is so expensive here in Canada's big cities - there is no way a young person getting into the workforce could buy a house. Most stay at home and save or move to the suburbs.
shareIt's becoming more common but there's definitely still a stigma about it. America has its head up its ass about a lot of stuff. In a lot of the world, the whole family still sleeps in one bed together. My brother has his wife's parents living with him, a few of his kids, and their grandchildren. All living like a happy bunch of loons in a compound down in Florida. It's wonderful to visit them. There's so much life going on all the time. Old people dying and new people taking the world by storm. It's a trip, man. I think the stigma stems from fallout of the American Dream that was getting sold in the 50s. Get a spouse and a house and a car and your 2.5 kids in Suburbia. Which was re-enforced by movies after for decades. When just before the great wars we was still living like the rest of the world did.
shareYes, the cost of living keeps going up - so I adjust and don't spend any money on anything besides food. My independence is worth eating bread and turkey every night and never leaving my house
shareFamily is Family. Who else are you going to trust in the World? People get married and within a couple years realize they've made a mistake, but your folks will always back you up. And if the kid is a decent person, they are trying to work and contribute to expenses, help the parents and save their own $$ for the proverbial rainy day. Nothing wrong with that. I hope the love that parents have for a child continues when the child is an adult. Nothing wrong with sticking together as a family unless someone doesn't want it like that, then they are free to move out.
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