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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Americans are doing it wrong.  We feel like
we need to prove something by moving far from our parents and showing the world we can do it on our own! Cultures that stay close to their family and work together seem way less stressed in my experience. [/quote]

Some of this is driven by American geography. I would love to live near either my family or my husband's family. At least within a couple hours. But they are both from remote areas and there are very few job opportunities. We both have siblings who live close to our parents and while their kids have more extended family support, our siblings have all had long bouts of joblessness.

If you are Japanese or French or Swedish, you are likely fairly close to your family unless you move out of your country. Even if your parents live in a rural area, you can likely see each other fairly frequently without getting on a plane. This is not true in the US. It's a big country, yet most of the jobs are concentrated in a handful of places. This puts a lot of people in a bind between staying near family or economic prosperity. Jobs are the main reason people move far from family, not some esoteric desire to "prove yourself." Just a baseline need for a solid income.[/quote]

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