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Livin' at Home

Livin' at Home

Date: Dec 11 2020

Themes: Family

Grammar: You're vs. Your

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When angry, American fathers commonly shout, “As soon as you’re 18, you’re on your own means a lot. It means you’re a legal adult, and, more often than not, people move out of their parents’ home when they are 18.

...And some of them come back or never leave at all. Adults live with their parents for lots of reasons. Sometimes their parents need care, or they need a place to stay to save up money after college. Even though it’s relatively common, people tend to look down on adults who live with their parents in the United States. Listen to Beren and Marni talk about it.

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Marni

Marni

Beren

Beren

Marni:  So I was reading that Time Magazine article recently about when you…Like, people in their 30s and moving back in with their parents…

Beren:  Yeah, that’s a huge thing.

Marni:  Yeah, and I was thinking, you know, in this culture, there’s such a stigma against living with your parents past a certain age. Like, you’re sort of viewed as a failure or something. But in many cultures, in many places in the world it’s pretty normal to live with your family.

Beren:  Yeah, you don’t move out until you’re married. And if you never marry, you never move out.

Marni:  Well, that or even sometimes you marry and yet you just live with your family and then, you know…Sort of in this country, I think parents move back in once they’re elderly, but it’s like, there’s this huge gap of time where it’s totally taboo and frowned upon, if you will…

Beren:  I know a bunch of people who are actually moving back in with their parents.

Marni:  I did it for like half a year when I was 29. It was great. I saved a lot of money.

Beren:  Yeah?

Marni:  Yeah. And my parents were happy to have me there. It’s an interesting thing. I don’t know…Is it so terrible?

 

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Discussion

Marni recently read an article about how many grown Americans are moving back in with their parents. It made her think about how in many countries, it’s perfectly normal to live with your parents past 30.

Beren notes that in a lot of places, people live with their families until they get married. But Marni points out that sometimes even married people continue to live with their family.

In the US, parents sometimes move in with their children when they get older and need someone to help take care of them. But there is a gap of 30 or 40 years between when the child turns 18 and the parents become elderly when it’s regarded as strange for them to live together.

Nonetheless, Beren knows a few people who have moved back in with their parents. Marni lived with her parents for a brief time a little while ago. She saved money and her parents were glad she was there. What’s so wrong about living with your parents when you’re an adult?

 

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kotlesya

kotlesya

Belarus

Nothing  wrong about living with parents or with parents in law in the same house or in the same appartmenet.


The real estate in my country has the astronomic prices. The interest rate for the purchase the real estate is very high.


The minority of people in my country can afford themselves such luxury  as to buy  their own house or apartment. 


The majority of people ( married people too) live with their parents. The apartments often not big enough and it is getting crowed with two families within it, indeed, but people have no other opportunity. :( 


 l live with my parents in law more than 10 years. They are nice people. They always try to help me to look after my children, because they know I have nobody closer than they are in Belarus ( my parents are 1500 km away)


I also help them in return. :)


The opinion of children’s psychologists is positive about children which live with thier grandparents. It helps children to be kind, sensitive, attentive in the future. It helps them to be sociable.


The only one disadvantage I must mention about it is the lack of your own space, where you can relax and to be on your own for a while…. people are everywhere Laughing

07:26 AM Feb 13 2012 |

 julito

julito

Argentina

Majed-1977   . Better, May I ask you to correct me if you find any mistakes because I want to improve my writing skills in english

11:31 AM Dec 02 2011 |

majed-1977

Saudi Arabia

Hi I want from you if I have any mistakes please  correct for me  because I want to improve my language.

04:42 AM Dec 02 2011 |

majed-1977

Saudi Arabia

In my country all the families live togther. For example, I have 6 sisters and 5 brothers


 all my family are living seam building and evryday we have meeting  at my father


houses.Howevr, now I live alon because Im studing english in canada.I cant live alon now


Im homesick  becuase long time I didnt see my family Im very sad. I want to see my


mother ,father and brothers. i miss them.

04:19 AM Dec 02 2011 |

bluese

bluese

Turkey

Yes, real families, regardless of age in my country never leaves their children alone, do not leave and they can not accept a kind of grown children still like lüçük they see as they were born.

07:00 PM Jun 05 2011 |

flylover

flylover

Georgia

In my country it’s common to live with your parents.Mostly they never leave their home unless they aren’t working to another city or something.But I think it’s really better to live alone after you pass certain age… so you learn how to live and you become more independent  and i think so you have more chance to be succeeded :)

06:28 PM Jun 05 2011 |

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love111111

Myanmar

yes ,living at home is good , but now i am staying away from my home . I love my family so much . I want to support my family.

05:06 AM Apr 03 2011 |

mahi_6565

mahi_6565

Iran, Islamic Republic Of

every people in iran live with their parents before they married. and then we go to our parent's home every weakend. relationship with family member is so importent hear. and of course love is most important in this relation.so I love my family so muchLaughing

12:32 PM Jan 24 2011 |

afufu

China

I live in China. It's totally normal to live with your parents here. Actually, I want to live with my parents, but I cannot. Because I got a job in a different city, which is far away from my parents' city. I only see my them once a year, so I miss them all the time. For those who live with their parents, they are lucky.

Maybe I will move back to my parents' house to take care of them when they are older. I am supposed to look after them. That's what Chinese people do. When you are yonng, they take care of you. When they are old, you take care of them.

 

02:48 PM Dec 11 2010 |

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lathy

lathy

Viet Nam

in Vietnam and many Asian countries,living with their parents even when u get married is very popular and normal

11:03 PM Nov 20 2010 |

englishbaby789

United States

I enjoy living with my parents. They arranged everything well for me,and of cousre save money. they pay the bills, they cook nice food, they buy daily supplies, I just don't need to worry about anything. you know, sometimes when you got off work, you felt very tired and just wanted to lie on the sofa watching TV, had no energy to cook, if you live with your parents, they had already prepared the dinner for you, how good is it!

04:06 AM Sep 30 2010 |

GANESANRAJA

India

i want must improve my English!!!!!!!!!!!!

i love eng 

 

 

 

02:25 PM Jun 30 2010 |

bos12008

Egypt

  Hi  I  Love   grop and Ihope   to learn  english

09:19 AM Jun 13 2010 |

bos12008

Egypt

  Hi  I  Love   grop and Ihope   to learn  english

09:19 AM Jun 13 2010 |

qurux

Somalia

hi iam very glad to join dis wup
thanks u alot may quetion is
i want to khow wat is the topic
about sceintific invectoin dat has
chanched the world? thanks
iam waiting for your unswer byby.

07:15 AM May 19 2010 |

qurux

Somalia

hi iam very glad to join dis wup
thanks u alot may quetion is
i want to khow wat is the topic
about sceintific invectoin dat has
chanched the world? thanks
iam waiting for your unswer byby.

07:15 AM May 19 2010 |

qurux

Somalia

hi iam very glad to join dis wup
thanks u alot may quetion is
i want to khow wat is the topic
about sceintific invectoin dat has
chanched the world? thanks
iam waiting for your unswer byby.

07:15 AM May 19 2010 |

qurux

Somalia

hi iam very glad to join dis wup
thanks u alot may quetion is
i want to khow wat is the topic
about sceintific invectoin dat has
chanched the world? thanks
iam waiting for your unswer byby.

07:15 AM May 19 2010 |

mossavi

mossavi

Afghanistan

i think living with parents are really enjoyable and i'm living with them now…

06:17 PM Apr 04 2010 |

mathematiker

Turkey

İn Turkey, it is  a normal thing. actually it is necassary…because of culture of Turkey..and I think so… they my back up you…it shouldn't have  seem as a  taboo..because they are a FAMİLY..I think having a family means that you can live together,too….

11:07 AM Mar 11 2010 |

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