That's a lot of words to say "The rent is too damn high."

This is totally selfish of me, but I will be happy for my daughter to live with us as an adult, because empty nest syndrome is going to hit me super hard. I also want her to be independent and strike out on her own, so I would never tell her this. She knows she's welcome to live with us whenever and for as long as she likes and I've left it at that.

On the other hand, I've spent a week (so far) in an AirBnB with my 82-year-old mother after being stuck with her during the 8 1/2 hour drive to get here and it has not been fun, so I hope we never have to move in with her, even though she has a ridiculously huge house she doesn't need.

It's poverty. I've got a friend sleeping over because she, in her 20's needs to get away from her abusive mom for a day

There is not enough housing in the US and shithead know nothings keep it that way with NIMBY and gentrification attitudes.

People who say that young adults who live in their parents basement are bums are bums themselves.

I build homes and the privileged loser fuck heads who got housing got it from inheritance or getting lucky with their jobs.

The housing market is so fucked up and it’s been under attack by not only the greedy shit head realtors but industry makers and policy makers, investors and Air BnB.

It’s almost as if rich people want the poor to always be on their toes so they can be manipulated.

Housing is a fucking RIGHT. We need to make sure the elites understand that.

MHM.

This “Jolie Myers” doesn’t know how to say “poverty”

What a heart-warming tale of abject poverty.

If only my parents owned a fucking house lolol

I think that we are doomed unless we undertake USSR levels of building housing. For all of its faults, housing was one of the ideas that the USSR did much better at than America. Millions and millions of units of housing built over less than a decade.

So things will just go back to normal and the "most people own their own house and spends decades living alone as a couple in it" thing will be seen as a North American trend that lasted for about 100 years until people realized it didn't make sense.

You just need to have seen what long term/end of life care looks like to realize that we can't keep that trend going.

My wife and I are very early in the planning stages for building a house. We're fairly young and have one 6 month old kid, but we're already planning for the strong possibility of having to have our children with us for far longer than they'd like.

It's going to suck for them to try affording rent and buying a home.

And those of us with poor parents, or who are estranged from our parents, or who otherwise have some barrier between us and our parents either have to bootstrap our ways to survival or die.

I wish I had married someone rich instead of the daughter of two school teachers. But I’m lucky she had generous rich extended family that gave us enough to buy the house I now own before we divorced.

Now I’m unemployed after being laid off 3 months ago with no safety net and no strong prospects for work that will keep me in the house, even with a roommate paying rent. I have nowhere to go and no one to support me if I lose the house.

I'm honestly ok with my kids or step kids or MIL or FIL moving in, saves money and is better in a lot of ways to have someone home all the time. But I absolutely couldn't have lived with my mom. And I suspect at least some of my kids wouldn't enjoy living with me. They all say they'd consider a family compound a perfect living situation though, like if we had a quad-plex or something like that.