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Or am I an anachronism? I started sharing my paid off home with my daughter and her family when husband was ill. It has been about 8 years now.
In my family we have a history of multi generations living together on both sides. My grandparents, parents, siblings, and my husband all died at home surrounded by family. Is this an oddity now?
We share all bills pertaining to the household including property taxes, insurances, maintenance, utilities and groceries. We could afford separate homes but sharing frees up money for both of us allowing more family activities and savings for her and freedom of worry when traveling for me. In addition as part of the nuclear family I am aging in place. I am part of the daily life and as I age it will be a normal part of life not an outside force.
Does anyone else choose multi generational lifestyle?
Well my roommate is 17 years older than me - does that count?
Here in my small poor town, lots of that going on but out of necessity. Also more of the grandparents or really great grandparents taking care of the kids. Grandparents are still young enough to want to be out on the streets! Finding love in all the wrong places.
We bought a house and did remodeling to separate the two halves and add a second kitchen. My wife and I have the smaller side and my daughter, SIL and 2 grandkids occupy the other side. It works out well for my daughter and her family. They have space they could not otherwise afford and they will eventually inherit the house. My wife and I could have used more space but we get by. We also travel for months at a time in an RV. We don't need to worry about leaving the house or keeping up with the yard work and other maintenance. We are also spending a lot less money than would have been necessary for us to live alone.
I would not consider our arrangements to be multi-generational living. There are days and even weeks when we don't see the other generations.
No one wants to live with us because I would be hard to live with. My husband and I raised our kids in our 2500 square feet, two story home. We are now alone. We could well afford to enlarge our downstairs office and bathroom, but we hesitate to do so. Why? It costs money and we like our own place.
No, we are not part of a multi-generational household.
I have seen some multi-generational homes for sale, though, and even toured a few to see if they could be converted back to single family use without spending a fortune. Haven't seen one yet that I would consider remodeling, not when so many SFH are on the market.
From what I have seen these homes languish on the market quite a long time, like other types of offbeat housing.
I own a large townhouse. My daughter and family have 3 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs.
I have a large bedroom, bath and office/guestroom and the laundry on bottom level. It is a walk out with deck.
And we share the middle level of living room, dining room, kitchen and powder room on the main level. It works for us.
I own a large townhouse. My daughter and family have 3 bedrooms and 2 baths upstairs.
I have a large bedroom, bath and office/guestroom and the laundry on bottom level. It is a walk out with deck.
And we share the middle level of living room, dining room, kitchen and powder room on the main level. It works for us.
What you describe as your living arrangements is far more common in Europe. My In-laws lived downstairs while my DW's sister lived upstairs. Now the sister and her husband live downstairs and their daughter lives upstairs. This will probably go on for generations. Why a lot of them never have mortgages, the homes stay in the same family for 100+ years.
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