Submitted 15 hours ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to greentext@sh.itjust.works
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My older brother is 28 and still with us… 🤷♂️
My mom said shit like: “[some random friend/relative] is only 21 and already graduated college and gotten married and have a kid, why are y’all [directed at me and my older brother] such failures?”
(Chinese American)
Just gesture vaguely to the world around you.
Mom: “I grew up with nothing, your grandparents didn’t give us anything, yet look at how much I’ve built [they have like a few hundred thousand to possibly 1 mill USD in assets], why can’t you do the same?”
And funny thing is she also admitted that luck is part of the equation, but then still shamed us anyways…
Like she often points to this cousin that apprantly is doing some bussiness stuff overseas and made millions in profits…
And like
Oh this is funny:
“Look at NYC! An IMMIGRANT BECAME MAYOR! [she’s talking about Mamdani] You came here at 8 years old, why can’t you be just like him?”
😭
Idk mom, Mamdani’s mom seems nicer than you… maybe that’s why… lmfao
All that at 21 is crazy. I am barely at uni at 19
I read somewhere that like 60 percent of adults under 30 still live with their parents. You should ask your mom how her generation screwed up everything for their kids.
Her generation…
Well I mean…
Mao’s little red books intensifies
(okay jokes aside, I was told my generation was “supposed” to have it better than theirs… in terms of like them growing up in Mainland China 60s/70s vs me having the opportunity to emigrate during childhood… but maybe I just got very bad luck and mom got extremely lucky in terms of “being successful in life”)
Teo of my kids live with us, between 25 and 30. Our third (in that age range) lives with his biological dad. Though part of that is for health reasons.
Gonna point out this post is from over a decade ago
Things were still pretty bad back then, but people did still typically move out of their parents’ place at that point
Depends on culture.
They’re 4chan. What culture?
That’s early for Spanish to move out
Fr, i choose to interpret this as “my parents let me live with them because of the super shitty housing and unemployment crisis here, but they’re splitting up, now I’ll have to figure out who to support with rent + chores.” Or “Now I’ll have to figure out who will live in a nicer area and move in with them.”
Even if it’s not as traumatic as a kid break-up i think it would still be very unpleasant to have to live with that level of bickering.
Boomers complaining about their kids not moving out like theyre not the ones responsible for this shitty housing market.
Nah, it’s billionaires. Silent gen billionaires, boomer billionaires, gen x billionaires, millenial billionaires.
But for a large part boomers buying in to the billionaires propaganda and voting in favor of the billionaires
TheFerrango@lemmings.world 6 hours ago
Plot twist: the ultimatum was about kicking their son out