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Tell your new roommates to take out the garbage.
For the first time in modern history, more 18-to-34-year-olds live with their parents than in any other living arrangement, according to a Pew Research Center report released Tuesday.
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And the stigma seems to be fading.

“I was a little embarrassed; I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, does this mean I’m a failure?’ ” said Kimberly Moser, 24, who moved in with her parents in Culver City, Calif., while she attended graduate school. “But when I tell people, I see it’s more accepted. They say, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s smart; save money.’ ”
Let me save you the trouble. Yes, you are a failure.
When Burt dated someone who was also living with parents, it was tricky. “You’re always trying to schedule times when you can be alone in your house.”
So many Costanza moments are coming to mind, I can't even fathom them all.
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On the other hand, GORDON's wife lives with her mom and she seems pretty on-the-ball.
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“I was a little embarrassed; I was like, ‘Oh, my gosh, does this mean I’m a failure?’ ” said Kimberly Moser, 24, who moved in with her parents in Culver City, Calif., while she attended graduate school. “But when I tell people, I see it’s more accepted. They say, ‘Oh, yeah, that’s smart; save money.’
There's a lot of that "all through history multiple generations of families have lived in the same household, it just makes sense" bullshit going around.

The truth is, living independently in this country isn't THAT difficult. Lots of people of average intelligence manage to do it. The peeps who can't need to look in the mirror and think about that.
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Multiple generations of families living in the same household being common throughout most of history isn't bullshit. But unless you are still in an agrarian society it's not really as economically necessary as it used to be and is no longer relevant to our modern world.
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TPRJones wrote:Multiple generations of families living in the same household being common throughout most of history isn't bullshit. But unless you are still in an agrarian society it's not really as economically necessary as it used to be and is no longer relevant to our modern world.
I was thinking just this. You DID have multiple generations in a household, but it was an advantage to survival and needed at that time.
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It's bullshit because we are no longer living in an agrarian society. Ask any woman how.acceptable it is when a 30 year old man who is.hitting on her still lives with mommy.
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GORDON wrote:It's bullshit because we are no longer living in an agrarian society. Ask any woman how.acceptable it is when a 30 year old man who is.hitting on her still lives with mommy.
Not sure you want to use young women's opinions as a guidepost to social utopia.
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Why not? Women, and marriage, and children, civilize men.
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"Then I did the worst thing of all. I got civilized."
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GORDON wrote:Why not? Women, and marriage, and children, civilize men.
Civilization is what you bitch about. Secretly you want to put your MIL to the sword and sack her holdings for money and cats.
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cats?
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To paraphrase Malcolm, what in the jesus tapdancing fuck are you talking about
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GORDON wrote:To paraphrase Malcolm, what in the jesus tapdancing fuck are you talking about
Fair use approved.
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