Current Events > Do you still live with your parents ?

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strombic
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No I live with yours
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No lol

Chicken posted...

No I live with yours

Made me laugh.

Yeah, I do. Despite being in my 30s, I never have enough money to move out. Because the recession in the UK, I had so many savings. ;_;

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No but I bought a place just a mile away so I'm still not completely independent. I can visit to bum a hot meal whenever while still having the privacy of my own place, so it feels like the best of both worlds.
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Nope. Im thousands of miles away from them, luckily

yea. :v mother wont let me leave.
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No its been a while. I lived with my grandparents to help them out when they were still alive and dying during part of my adult life, voted yes instead of no thanks to my thicc thumbs.
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I wish.
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Multigeneration households aren't too common in America and are frowned upon. Americans are expected to send their parents off to retirement homes or apartments/neighborhood for the elderly. There is great shame in living with your parents past the age of 22. The shame is so great that people start moving out of their parents home as soon as the age of 16.
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Anisoptera posted...

Multigeneration households aren't too common in America and are frowned upon. Americans are expected to send their parents off to retirement homes or apartments/neighborhood for the elderly. There is great shame in living with your parents past the age of 22. The shame is so great that people start moving out of their parents home as soon as the age of 16.

I think it is a silly standard we've set. I don't get why you need to move out to be considered successful. If you're working a job and helping your parents out, I don't see why you should feel ashamed of living with them.

If you're willfully unemployed and hiding in their basement, that's different of course. :v
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Anisoptera posted...

Multigeneration households aren't too common in America and are frowned upon. Americans are expected to send their parents off to retirement homes or apartments/neighborhood for the elderly. There is great shame in living with your parents past the age of 22. The shame is so great that people start moving out of their parents home as soon as the age of 16.

This stigma has been disappearing due to both economic limitations and the increase of minority populations in the U.S. (I think multigenerational homes are less stigmatized in the black, Hispanic, Asian, and Middle Eastern cultures). But you're right, it's generally still there though not as significantly as it was two generations ago.
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I moved back from out of state and live with my dad as a roommate basically. We split the rent and I pay for his cable bill and car insurance, as well as helping him with physical chores since he's old. I'm 31. I actually want to move out again but he can't afford the house payments by himself and I worry about his health.
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No. Moved out when I was 18.

Yes. However, I was living in an apartment. They are letting me take their house when they retire at the end of the year because they are moving back home. So I got to deal with this nonsense again for a few more months.
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Yes, mainly due to a number of financial setbacks in my own life that interfered with my plans to move out. I plan to do that very soon now that things are finally stable for me. But rent + my area's autoinsurance rates (the highest in the country) will kill me.
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I moved out pretty late at 24. Only been out of the house for a little over 4 years.
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yeah

in most of human history throughout all cultures multigenerational homes have been the norm

it's only recently in America that landlords and bankers have spread the meme that you need to move out the second you turn 18
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and in my experience the people who most want to move out are degenerates who want privacy to do drugs and have premarital sex
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Anisoptera posted...

Multigeneration households aren't too common in America and are frowned upon. Americans are expected to send their parents off to retirement homes or apartments/neighborhood for the elderly. There is great shame in living with your parents past the age of 22. The shame is so great that people start moving out of their parents home as soon as the age of 16.

They also end up going into debt and often end up asking for money from their parents.
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In their house, but not with them.
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No. Last time I lived with my parents was like 10 years ago and only for a couple months. Have lived over 10,000kms from them for a few years now as well
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Philoktetes posted...

yeah

in most of human history throughout all cultures multigenerational homes have been the norm

it's only recently in America that landlords and bankers have spread the meme that you need to move out the second you turn 18

its the housing brokers who want your ass to move out at 18! they want you paying rent and financing shit! >:U
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Sometimes I wish I did. To be a kid again with little responsibilities. One can dream.
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