Multi-generational households are normal in my culture. When we immigrated here, we struggled because there was no support structure for us. We started appreciating how amazing our cultural system was when we had our own kids and life was a juggling act.

We are very aware of how hard it is for the younger generation now to follow the American Dream, especially for the middle class. So we have made sure that we give our kids as much financial leg up as they want - as long as they are also moving ahead in life for education, job, career, side-gigs, travel, dating, hobbies, socializing, networking, finances, relationships, building a family etc. And yes, we know that money and wealth makes life easier and gives reselience to people so we make sure that they are well prepared and there is no yo-yo launching. Therefore, the kids are told to save every penny they make and use our resources to live well. If my kids pay rent, it is a big expense for them. If my kids live free in my own house, there is no additional cost to me. Same for food, utilities, toiletries, use of everything that a home has - tools, vehicles, entertainment, laundry, garden, ability to host etc.

I have no problem with family members living for the rest of their lives in the parental home as long as there is growth in all other parts of their life and they are able to give financial leg-up to the next generation. Frankly, this is how each generation gets richer than the previous.

Anonymous wrote:Will it be normal for 36-year-old to live at home and has no plans to move out, and have no plans to ever find a boyfriend or girlfriends or even a friend to move in with?

Works and makes okay money about 60,000 a year, but she just doesn't want to spend any money and want to save it all...

Does this person have autism?

Anonymous wrote:My cousin who is 67 still lives at home and both her parents already died of old age. That is strange. She still lives in the house she lived in as a newborn.

Even stranger. They built a massive shopping mall next door to her house in the late 1960s. I recalled hearing Dad was furious they have to look at a big shopping mall forever. After 50 years or so the mall shut down, was torn down and now they are building condos there.

When she came home from Hospital it was a Farm next to her house and it was 1958.

Is that what you want for your kid?

So she inherited a paid-off home? Could be renting for life and in heavy debt.