ag-beforever:

bogleech:

beatrice-otter:

thenutofroyalty:

jonsasnow:

kibumsfreakk:

im-so-3008:

Hey. LIVING COSTS MONEY! How about giving more money to the companies that employ me and MAYBE I MIGHT BE OK

This is such a funny thing to me because in Thai culture, it’s completely normal to live with your parents when you’re an adult. In fact, most people live in their family home until they’re married ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Saaaame in Pakistan dude and being abroad for grad school is really fucking me up I am not built to be even slightly independent 😂

In Western culture (including America!) it was completely normal for people to live with their parents in adulthood–sometimes until they married, sometimes longer.  In America, that changed (for men) in the 1940s and 50s, when it was really really easy for an 18 year old to get a good job that paid more than enough to live a comfortable life on, or to afford college which would then practically guarantee you an even better-paying job.  Women joined the trend of moving out at 18 in the 1960s and 70s.

And now those jobs don’t exist, or are few and far between, and guess what!  People are living with their parents again.  But that 70-year span was just long enough that it fell out of common memory, and now people are seen as “failures” because the economics have changed.

A very great deal of Western culture, ESPECIALLY America, is actually still based on a memory of the 40′s and 50′s as the baseline of normalcy despite them being a total fluke at the time.

World War II and McCarthyism created a massive shift towards rabid patriotism, Christian fundamentalism and the ideal of the “nuclear family” that resembled nothing before it and we’re still recovering from as the majority of our most powerful politicians are old enough that this period of sudden fanaticism is their “nostalgic good old days” and the way they think things are “supposed to be.”

Precisely.

For most of recorded history, living with your parents until you got married was the norm for people in most sectors of society. A sudden burst of capitalistic growth that allowed comparatively young people to become well-off enough to move out on their own happened in the last 60-70 years, and that’s changed people’s perceptions of what’s normal in this regard. Now things have just bounced back to where they were before.

Also – living with your parents as an adult isn’t normal?

Please.

Not only did my dad not move out of his parent’s house when he became an adult…he BOUGHT the house from his father!

And now I co-own it with him!