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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend is married to someone from this culture and they cannot do anything -. I mean simple HH tasks.  It's pathetic and causing them problems because the kids are watching this.   They grow up thinking that some supposedly functioning adults are not even able to change a lightbulb.[/quote]

My husband grew up this way abroad.  They had a handyman who would put up their Christmas tree.  To this day he protests putting up the Christmas tree.

For anyone interested, with your American credentials you can live OP’s exact lifestyle in almost any second or third world country or even possibly Dubai or somewhere like that.  Gated fancy house, nanny, household help for anything.  It’s totally doable if you truly think middle class life in America is a miserable “grind.”

Otherwise just get your husband to pull his weight already.[/quote]

This is so true. Family grew up rich (relatively) in a poor developing country. They really can't do much, since they always hired it out. Like, some don't even really know how to do laundry, wash dishes, minor home/car repairs. There was a nanny a cook/maid, a driver/handyman. Labor is much more expensive in the USA and inequality is quite a bit lower. I mean watch 'Roma', it was just like that.[/quote]

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