when I was out of work in 2009, I was absolutely terrified I'd have to move home with my parents, but mostly because it would have uprooted me from literally anyone I spent time with and flung me 850 miles across the country with no real way to get back. It wasn't an anxiety about living with my parents on its own merits, but more, I will lose my entire offline life. If my parents lived in the same city I wound up in, it would've been a big shrug (but! I am super lucky to have a supportive and loving family.)
I look at the struggle my mom has with helping my grandmother because they live at a decent distance (8 hour drive) from each other, and it just makes me wonder why people are so determined to go it alone, although I'm sure American exceptionalism ties into that to some extent. I mean, there's a degree of privacy in living space that I really like having - I wouldn't want to go back to that student/immediately after graduation life when we were all kind of living on top of each other - but something like a group of reasonably soundproofed residences clustered where we can share socialization, cooking/cleaning/land care duties, and go be by ourselves if we gotta? Sign me straight the fuck up.
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Date: 2020-09-30 09:28 pm (UTC)I look at the struggle my mom has with helping my grandmother because they live at a decent distance (8 hour drive) from each other, and it just makes me wonder why people are so determined to go it alone, although I'm sure American exceptionalism ties into that to some extent. I mean, there's a degree of privacy in living space that I really like having - I wouldn't want to go back to that student/immediately after graduation life when we were all kind of living on top of each other - but something like a group of reasonably soundproofed residences clustered where we can share socialization, cooking/cleaning/land care duties, and go be by ourselves if we gotta? Sign me straight the fuck up.