VeeVees posted...
What's with Americans' fear of living with family?
The 1950s convinced everyone that the perfect family unit was the nuclear family, and years worth of Puritan work ethic convinced most of us that an inability to live on your own by age 20 is pretty much a sign of absolute failure as a functional human being.
The massive shit the economy's been taking over the last few decades and rising millennial attitudes are starting to shift that, though, at least partly because most people seem to be carrying massive debt loads and are generally unable or unwilling to take on even more to buy a house of their own (and/or are unwilling to put elderly parents into nursing homes or other forms of adult care). So a lot of people are being forced to revert back to the more traditional "extended family" model whether they want to or not, because it takes a lot of financial pressure off.
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