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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 parent's 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.
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.
Yes they do lol
Not as true as it used to be I don't think. But yes it has that reputation.
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.
I get it for Americans, most go live at the college, and then they don't go back to their parents.
After college, which some people go away to, most kids end up back home unless they found a job or established a life elsewhere.
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.
Found the basement dweller.