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It's been a long time since uni and my first company but at that time (90s) it was definitely not normal in my circles to live with your parents. You were consi
by tluyben2 10y ago
It's been a long time since uni and my first company but at that time (90s) it was definitely not normal in my circles to live with your parents. You were considered rather 'sad' if you did. But that's only perception/peer pressure; there are reasons to live with your parents (financial is one). However another thing is that I know almost no one who could live with their parents; that is not about liking or not liking, but more about that you seriously want your own space when you get to a certain age and my parents would be driving me bonkers and vice versa.
- slantyyz 10y ago>> It's been a long time since uni and my first company but at that time (90s) it was definitely not normal in my circles to live with your parents (financial mostly I guess). I don't have any numbers to back it up, but my experience (I think we're of a similar age) was that this was true mainly for "white people with an English speaking background". Most of my friends with an ethnic background did not have any stigmas related to living with their parents prior to marriage. This includes people who might otherwise be considered white but whose parents spoke a different language at home (Italian, Greek, Portuguese), etc. Granted, I live in Canada - there seems to be much less pressure for immigrants to assimilate vs in the US.
- tluyben2 10y agoThat might be very true; this was in the Netherlands in a 'prestigious' math/cs major; there were no (0) people with an ethnic background there. Come to think of it, we had no people with ethnic backgrounds in the electronics minor I did either. I live in Spain now and it's normal here to stay with your parents until, what is in US tv shows referred to as, far beyond serial killer age.