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I stayed at my parents place for a year. Got a PT, but eventually moved out when I found a "proper job". They didn't want me to pay rent because they knew if I could pay rent, I wouldn't be at home. I would've been out living in an apartment of my own. I helped out around the house with chores, and used the money from the PT to pay my cell phone bill.
Rent at low end is hardly trivial taking a goodly portion of earnings. And low end jobs arent most reliable, they tend to want you to be "on call", making a second or third job difficult. So you have no idea if you will get enough hours to make rent. This is why there is such a food problem, most of money has to go for rent.
And yea people arent taught either by parents or by school how to be fiscally responsible. Heck I am old man and I remember a REQUIRED assembly for seniors my last year high school. Had to listen to couple bankers tell us what a wonderful thing consumer debt was. No mention of savings or investing. I was not impressed even as kid back then such BS.
We lived 5 people - us, 2 children and paralyzed FIL - in 154 sf room. For several years. We took trips to wife's job office, after hrs, to, you know... as we were young and there was no way to do it at home. And that didn't bother us at all. That's called family life.
The thread is such a 1st world problem rant...
I am more curious, what will ya say next year, when SHTF real hard. As now, it's just a pretaste.
You all just slept in the same room? Was there a bathroom at least? Good thing no cameras caught you screwing in the office.
More than half of young American adults are living with one or both of their parents.
Not since the beginning of World War II have there been so many young adults shacking up with their parents—and COVID-19 is to blame.
wrong...covid 19 is NOT to blame. The failing economy is to blame, and it was failing long before covid 19.
The blame lies with the government...they just want you to blame a virus...it's a perfect scapegoat for the corruption and mismanagement of your tax dollars by the government.
There's been many contagious virus's throughout history, yet people were never expected to kiss their jobs and livelihoods goodbye because of it... the fear mongering and propaganda that is broadcast daily (with no facts to back it up) is outrageous.
Try typing into google any 2 digit or 3digit or 4 digit number with the words newcases beside it...see what happens.
EVERY number you type in will show a result...I find that curious.
I know plenty of perfectly good well-employed 20 and 30 somethings living at home instead of renting an apt....while at the same time, I know many - many - UNemployed college students using student loans to live in dorms at local universities.
I don't know the percents - and maybe the economy plays a role - but there are enough Poor Choices to enter the discussion.
wrong...covid 19 is NOT to blame. The failing economy is to blame, and it was failing long before covid 19.
The blame lies with the government...they just want you to blame a virus...it's a perfect scapegoat for the corruption and mismanagement of your tax dollars by the government.
There's been many contagious virus's throughout history, yet people were never expected to kiss their jobs and livelihoods goodbye because of it... the fear mongering and propaganda that is broadcast daily (with no facts to back it up) is outrageous.
Try typing into google any 2 digit or 3digit or 4 digit number with the words newcases beside it...see what happens.
EVERY number you type in will show a result...I find that curious.
Put your tinfoil hat back on. And what the hell are you doing online? The gubmint will come and get you.
My brother was in town last week, talking about final retirement, and part of that would mean that his close to 30 year old daughter would have to be fully self sufficient before he did. "She's not like when we were kids where Dad pushed us out of the house at 18 and told us to make our way in the world.".
Now, throw an additional element into that. My high schoolish years had an underlying theme of independence to them. In junior high, I was taking the SSAT https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second...Admission_Test ; for 9th grade, I was looking at being at a boarding school but we moved before that became a necessity. My high school time was loaded with applying for academies and scholarships, making myself qualified for them, so for many years, I was groomed to be out of the house soon after high school graduation.
When I was in my early 30s, my father asked me about my graduate work and it came down to how I was not asking him for college support. "I never really felt comfortable taking money from you.".
"Well, that is understandable," he said. "You had been out on your own, in the service, making your own decisions; I am sure it was unpleasant being somewhat under your father's thumb again." If only he knew what was a big motivator, driver to my independence....but that's another story.
When I became the sibling who was just an hour away, I needed that space for my life. I was willing to help my father and mother and then just my mother, but I didn't want to be right next door, subject to every beck and call. Interestingly enough, my mother had gone through similar with my father's mother, of how there was a house available down the street just from them, and mom was telling me how important it was for her family to be a little distant from the previous generation.
I suppose the long story short is having tasted independence, I don't want to give it up.
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