• rowrowrowyourboat@sh.itjust.works
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      Isn’t the US infamous for being one of the only countries where once you hit 18 your parents expect you to fuck off?

      And if you don’t, everyone belittles you for living in your parents’ basement?

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        And if you don’t, everyone belittles you for living in your parents’ basement?

        In more individualistic countries, that is the case. Living with parents and relatives is common in more family-oriented cultures. Even in Europe, the mostly Catholic countries still have people living with their parents. But for Protestant and individualistic European countries, they will judge you harshly for it.

        I have to say though, I find that some people who expect anyone over 25 to even move out are a bit simple minded considering the cost of living crisis. You have to have a good job to afford to move out. It is unrealistic these days for many people to do so because of housing crisis. Heck, even with a good job and good pay, the current expensive economic situation mitigates all those advantages! I had a manager who still lives with her parents. My best friend still lives with his parents as well, long after he turned 18and working for many years now. And the more simple minded individuals expect the old ways to still be applicable, but those same individuals actually don’t have savings, unlike people who still live with their parents.

        Ideally people should move out of home because it is part of growing up and maturing, but the current exploitative system prevent most of us to fulfill our own potential.

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        Someone else already replied well, but I wanted to add that we’re not entirely homogenous, either. Southern US culture still has multigenerational homes as a normal thing. It isn’t the majority, but nobody really bats an eye in the South or Appalachia if you live in a home (or on piece of property with multiple dwellings) with your parents, grandparents, some cousins, an aunt or two, and that dude you brought over to dinner once that moved in at 14 when your parents found out his parents were shitty to him.

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        18 is when legal parental requirements end, but like … only shitty people do that.

        Its prevalence in media belies how little that kind of thing actually happens IMO.

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          I get it for Americans, most go live at the college, and then they don’t go back to their parents.

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            After college, which some people go away to, most kids end up back home unless they found a job or established a life elsewhere.

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              Is it so hard to find a job?

              In Venezuela they just raised the montly minimun wage from 0.13$ to 240$ for the first time in YEARS and basic food for 2 adults and a child is like 800$ a month.

              We are VERY unprepared.

        • prof_tincoa@lemmygrad.ml
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          Move out? Lol

          Sometimes we build a new room in our parents house, which already look like an architectural jigsaw puzzle, and keep living there. É só fazer um puxadinho.

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      Looks like you triggered some people. Can you elaborate on South America? Is it from personal experiences?

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        9 hours ago

        Less triggered and more annoyed at the inaccuracy. It’s not uncommon for one kid to live with their parents until the end. Nothing like the last panel.

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        We go out of our parents houses when we marry if we ever do, otherwise it’s hard to rent or own unless someone’s dies assuming they’re home owners… sometimes we live in the family homes all of our lives.

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          I don’t see how that fits the meme.

          I think 4 is the American system where a lot of parents expects kids to move out the moment they turn 18.