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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know several people with live in help, but most of them actually aren't rich. One is a family with a live in au-pair from another country. The other families I know with live-in help are people from the Middle East or India (or at least one of the couple has parents from there). Culturally, they are way more used to having live-in servants.

Personally, I wouldn't want someone in my space all the time and I don't want anyone touching my underwear! But I'm that person who avoids being home while my housecleaners come because I find it awkward, and I also heavily pre-clean (not just declutter, but I'm talking scrubbing the stove, vacuuming, wiping up dust and hair in the corners of the bathroom...) before they come every 2 weeks. [/quote]

We Americans have awkwardness around class boundaries. That's why we prefer our servants anonymous. Cleaning lady who you avoid seeing, Uber driver who doesn't make conversation, delivery guys who bring things unobtrusively and get paid on the app, nail salon lady who doesn't speak English...
A sibling married into an Indian family and they are the complete opposite. They love lording it over the help.[/quote]

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