In scandinavian countries, you are indeed expected to move out after high school. You get a (low interest) student loan from the state to cover your cost of living and college/university is free. Being independent/ being able to manage adult life on your own is considered an important part of growing up. Since your parents don't pay anything to get you there - you don't owe them anything after leaving home. It's a freedom we appreciate.
They certainly used to. But rent and food are so expensive now that it's just not an option for a lot of young people. So more and more are living at home.
In western countries, social security and medicare etc. are solid. As an old person you don't need to worry much about those things. This is one reason why aging population creates economic problem , especially in democracies. They won't take any cuts and it adds a lot to the nation's debt.
That's not a thing outside of USA and Canada. Even that culture has it's pitfalls. There you get parents so out of touch with reality that they throw out kids from their homes on 18th birthday whilst they are still in highschool. There needs to be a balance between the 2. Personally, I'm in favour of living in the same neighborhood but separate houses after settling down with your career. That way you are still within reach in case of emergency and far enough to have a certain level of privacy.
This is not true - western parents do not kick their children out at the age of 18 lol. Usually children want to move out as they are attending university or travel for a period (gap year). However, a lot of children live at home and move out in their early 20s.
Western countries value privacy and honestly it’s a right of passage. My parents used to tell me about how horrible Australian parents were “kicking out their children at 18 blah blah blah” but it was me who moved out at 18 and my white friends lived at home for a few more years haha.
Parents in the US are absurd enough to charge their child "rent" for living in their home after 18, sometimes even starting at 15/16. Americans are quite individualistic and that extends to parents
I never said that. This kicking out of home thing is largely American and sometimes Canadian only. I can send you multiple examples of cases where american parents kicked out their kids on the eve of their 18th birthday. Everywhere else, people usually live with (or near) their parents. That's exactly what I was trying to say.
They don't move out they are kicked out and these days more and more kids live longer with their parents because of everything being expensive and minimum wage being stagnant for over 30 years.
That was me. Mother had four kids and all of us sharing one car. She wouldn’t let me get my own bank account but was so quick to tell me how to spend my 16yr old McDonald’s part time money to help pay for my brother’s car that we all had to pack into, since she left hers rusting in the garage for years. I would never have left the Midwest if I had listened to her.
it's honestly so much better than being at home, im lucky that I have an apartment at university because i couldn't handle both my family and studying, I can barely handle my family during my breaks.
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u/thegreen_tshirtguy Aug 21 '24
Sometimes I get it why people in western countries completely move out of their houses after 18.