how many people really live in a 8000sqft house?

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

It isn't a cultural thing, it is a nice thing. If your parents are older and can't live by themselves, it makes sense to take them into your house if you can. Growing up my grandmother lived with us for maybe 10 years after my grandfather died and she got too old to take care of herself. I suspect that if that time comes for my parents one or both of them will move in with us too. I'd much rather have my parents in our house than in an old folks home.

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

free daycare!

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

It isn't a cultural thing, it is a nice thing. If your parents are older and can't live by themselves, it makes sense to take them into your house if you can. Growing up my grandmother lived with us for maybe 10 years after my grandfather died and she got too old to take care of herself. I suspect that if that time comes for my parents one or both of them will move in with us too. I'd much rather have my parents in our house than in an old folks home.

It is a cultural thing. The only time I see grandparents moving into baby boomers' homes is when there is financial need. Even then, it is usually the wife's parents that move in.

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

It isn't a cultural thing, it is a nice thing. If your parents are older and can't live by themselves, it makes sense to take them into your house if you can. Growing up my grandmother lived with us for maybe 10 years after my grandfather died and she got too old to take care of herself. I suspect that if that time comes for my parents one or both of them will move in with us too. I'd much rather have my parents in our house than in an old folks home.

It is a cultural thing. The only time I see grandparents moving into baby boomers' homes is when there is financial need. Even then, it is usually the wife's parents that move in.

It's a loving family thing. I have a white family living on my street who have grandparents living with them. Grandparents are in shaky health and son's wife takes care of them. It's really nice to see.

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

It isn't a cultural thing, it is a nice thing. If your parents are older and can't live by themselves, it makes sense to take them into your house if you can. Growing up my grandmother lived with us for maybe 10 years after my grandfather died and she got too old to take care of herself. I suspect that if that time comes for my parents one or both of them will move in with us too. I'd much rather have my parents in our house than in an old folks home.

It is a cultural thing. The only time I see grandparents moving into baby boomers' homes is when there is financial need. Even then, it is usually the wife's parents that move in.

It's a loving family thing. I have a white family living on my street who have grandparents living with them. Grandparents are in shaky health and son's wife takes care of them. It's really nice to see.

We are white and we have my parents living with us (they have a fully self-contained area in our house - which is also not 8000sqft or even close!) It's normal for us and really nice - my grandparents lived with us when I was growing up. They do their own thing and do not provide free daycare, but they do spend lots of time with our kids - e.g. the kids will often go and have breakfast with their grandparents on weekends, my mom will come and read bedtime stories to the kids, my son will go and watch sports with my dad if he's watching on tv, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:why do people choose to live with grandparents? is that an Asian thing/culture thing?

It isn't a cultural thing, it is a nice thing. If your parents are older and can't live by themselves, it makes sense to take them into your house if you can. Growing up my grandmother lived with us for maybe 10 years after my grandfather died and she got too old to take care of herself. I suspect that if that time comes for my parents one or both of them will move in with us too. I'd much rather have my parents in our house than in an old folks home.

It is a cultural thing. The only time I see grandparents moving into baby boomers' homes is when there is financial need. Even then, it is usually the wife's parents that move in.

It's a loving family thing. I have a white family living on my street who have grandparents living with them. Grandparents are in shaky health and son's wife takes care of them. It's really nice to see.

We are white and we have my parents living with us (they have a fully self-contained area in our house - which is also not 8000sqft or even close!) It's normal for us and really nice - my grandparents lived with us when I was growing up. They do their own thing and do not provide free daycare, but they do spend lots of time with our kids - e.g. the kids will often go and have breakfast with their grandparents on weekends, my mom will come and read bedtime stories to the kids, my son will go and watch sports with my dad if he's watching on tv, etc.

Multi-generational living used to be the norm. People got away from it and then kids started becoming assholes thanks to lack of supervision. It takes a village. I don't see the difference between a live-in grandparent or a nanny?

We love that my mother lives with us. She is in great health, financially stable/independent and loves spending time with her grandchildren. She has her own space in the 7K sqft home and our situation is perfect for our family!

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Anonymous wrote:This is probably a normal breakdown of what you find in the house:

2 Parents, at least one of whom is always on a work trip
1 full-time nanny
3 children
Various visitors for work or related to work

Dor work? wTH? Family!

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Anonymous wrote:This is probably a normal breakdown of what you find in the house:

2 Parents, at least one of whom is always on a work trip
1 full-time nanny
3 children
Various visitors for work or related to work

Dor work? wTH? Family!

Sorry, I meant: "For work?! WTH! Family!"

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I'm Italian-American and my 83 year old mom has lived with us for ten years. My dad passed away years ago and we didn't want her to live alone as she aged. DH's parents live in another country but Come to stay with us for three months at a time. We have s 6500 sq. ft. House which suits us well for our three-generation multi-culti family. It's wonderful for our kids to spend so much time with their grandparents.

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We live in an 8,000 sq ft house. When we were building it, I felt as though there was no way we were going to use all that space. But we quickly spread out and I feel like we all have enough room, plus some space for guests.

We do entertain all the time (about 2-3 times a month) and the space is certainly helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:growing up in the west coast, I have to admit I never seen so many 6000-8000 sqft house before I moved to mclean

so I wonder do those families really have like 5 kids or live with 3 generations in those 8000 sqft mansion?

I always get this dilemma when I talk to people about building a house, I think 4000 sqft would be the right size for a regular family, but then people would tell you 4000 sqft is too small for mclean and not good on the value

well whats u guys' take on this?

Plenty of huge 6-8,000 sqft houses on the West Coast. California is filled with them.

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Anonymous wrote:growing up in the west coast, I have to admit I never seen so many 6000-8000 sqft house before I moved to mclean

so I wonder do those families really have like 5 kids or live with 3 generations in those 8000 sqft mansion?

I always get this dilemma when I talk to people about building a house, I think 4000 sqft would be the right size for a regular family, but then people would tell you 4000 sqft is too small for mclean and not good on the value

well whats u guys' take on this?

Plenty of huge 6-8,000 sqft houses on the West Coast. California is filled with them.

They're incredibley ugly though

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Anonymous wrote:growing up in the west coast, I have to admit I never seen so many 6000-8000 sqft house before I moved to mclean

so I wonder do those families really have like 5 kids or live with 3 generations in those 8000 sqft mansion?

I always get this dilemma when I talk to people about building a house, I think 4000 sqft would be the right size for a regular family, but then people would tell you 4000 sqft is too small for mclean and not good on the value

well whats u guys' take on this?

Plenty of huge 6-8,000 sqft houses on the West Coast. California is filled with them.

They're incredibley ugly though

I love how all the above PPs seem to think that all areas of California (a huge state, btw!) are the same.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:growing up in the west coast, I have to admit I never seen so many 6000-8000 sqft house before I moved to mclean

so I wonder do those families really have like 5 kids or live with 3 generations in those 8000 sqft mansion?

I always get this dilemma when I talk to people about building a house, I think 4000 sqft would be the right size for a regular family, but then people would tell you 4000 sqft is too small for mclean and not good on the value

well whats u guys' take on this?

Plenty of huge 6-8,000 sqft houses on the West Coast. California is filled with them.

They're incredibley ugly though

I love how all the above PPs seem to think that all areas of California (a huge state, btw!) are the same.

Spanish style and modern McMansions are common all over