Do americans really charge their children rent?
Do americans really charge their children rent?
Jack Fisher
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Christian Nguyen
Rent plus tip.
Jayden Cooper
Not only am I living rent free with my parents, i also have a vacation home in your head, without charge.
Cameron Stewart
yes, but only because I insisted on not being a freeloader
t. paying rent to his rents
Brayden Morris
Some do. I'm pretty sure it's a northern European tradition.
Grayson Mitchell
what if you refuse to pay? Are they going to call the cops?
Henry White
Probably tell them to find their own place if they have any spine. Once your 18 you should be more than capable of finding and affording your own place with a roommate or two, and its socially constructive to do so. Though you may have to move if you live in a shithole like New York or San Francisco.
Owen Reyes
Holy fucking idiocy. Unless you're receiving an allowance from your parents, it is far more economical to live at home. I can understand getting roommates if you're going to college in a different state, but moving out is otherwise nonsensical. My university was only 20 minutes from my hometown--instead of getting "muh independence" and allocating over 50% of my monthly income for rent, I saved money and traveled to dozens of countries as an undergraduate.
It wasn't a purely hedonistic waste of time, either--my overseas experience led to me receiving several government- and private-sponsored fellowships, both as an undergraduate and graduate student.
Similarly, my ex-girlfriend's parents paid for her tuition and living expenses. Because she didn't have to work part-time to afford rent and food, she was able to do a number of paid and non-paid internships--and wound up getting a $70k per year job with an advertising degree straight out of undergraduate. She's in her mid-twenties and making six figures now, whereas most students with her major wind up getting $35-45k per year out the door.
Carson Johnson
>it's socially constructive to do so
Do you have a single shred of evidence to back that up?
Colton Butler
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Given the amount of research and the familiarity of the subject to most researchers IE college students with roommates, it's been thoroughly and repeatedly studied to the point of it being a cliche topic.
Luis Foster
This is the kinda stuff what parents should do if they care about childrens future.
John Bailey
That's great and all, but you clearly com from a home that can support you to a high level, and allow you to pursue your own interests without being a drain on household finances. A whole lot of American homes are severely affected by having an extra mouth to feed, and moving out, or paying into household finances is a way to help your family out.
TLDR your a spoiled brat and your blind to the conditions of your fellow man.
Jordan Barnes
No, I stayed in the house and they paid my rent at college
This sounds like something poorfags do to their kids to build character.
Mason Campbell
I wasn't charged rent. I just had to help around the house and help pay bills
Kevin Scott
Moving out never helps. Living at home and helping out is the only solution
Blake Russell
yes. in fact i would say it's more common for americans to help pay for their children's apartment than it is for grown children to live in their childhood homes for free.
Oliver Allen
>A whole lot of American homes are severely affected by having an extra mouth to feed
>spoiled brat
Typical backwoods American mentality. If anything, user, I pity your situation: I can't imagine coming from a household so broken and bereft of intimacy that you consider inter-generational resource-sharing a burden.
Also, see: .
The issue, IMO, has less to do with poverty than foresight. One of my best friends is a refugee. He was raised by a single mother, and lived at home--under the poverty--until he was in his mid-twenties. It would not have made sense, financially, for him to move out, as his university was a bicycle-ride from home.
Now he's a doctor, and he gives his mother money every month. In a lot of countries and cultures, this arrangement is expected: parents make certain social and economic sacrifices for their children, who, in turn, take care of them in old age. This is a large part of the reason why certain ethnic communities, such as East Asians and South Indians, are significantly more prosperous in the United States than their White counterparts.
Joshua Johnson
> paying rent for a house i'll inherit later
Jose Thompson
not him, but i can't have a proper social life while living under my parent's thumb in the suburbs.
how am i supposed to go out drinking or bring a girl home?
Joseph Martin
go to her house
Noah Ward
>reverse mortgage
Camden Ramirez
I just cannot understand how americans think and how they came to think like that.
Pic related is just a random twitter thread I stumbled across, imagine how many more people like that out there who just don't talk about it publicly
Owen Hughes
lol how does a 6 year old pay rent to their parents the only money they have comes from their parents
It sounds like they gave money to the 6 year old and than made them pay part of it back to teach them a lesson or something idk
Sebastian Jones
no family values and systematic jewish propaganda for generations
Eli Morris
William Hall
>but really it just made me bad with money eternally afraid of landlords.
Imagine being a grown fucking adult with the ability to rationalize and blaming your dogshit financial decisions on someone else.
Thomas Martin
I've never heard anything like this. I help out financially because I'm and adult with job and i'd rather live in my parents house and save money than blow half of it every month on a shitty apartment.
Joseph Gutierrez
because charging a 6 year old for rent won't fuck up that child in the future right? Are you really going to deny that her damaged parents had an influence on how she became a damaged person?
Colton Gray
When boomers were growing up all this stuff was really easy and almost always worked out Same but to a somewhat lesser degree for Gen X. It’s not the same anymore but they refuse to acknowledge that because they spent the last 20 years mentally preparing to push you out at 18.
So many things about Americans on this board are total bullshit but Americans being bad parents is not one of them.
Jayden Howard
This. Lmao. Sure, it’s fucking stupid to do that to your kid but you are now an adult so get the fuck over it. This is typical blame shifting (I’m bad at X because Y was mean to me). These people are mental children.
Easton Reed
>became a damaged person?
They charged her meme rent to try to teach her a lesson. They didn’t fucking rape her. She’s an adult and needs to get the fuck over it. I’d bet the story is largely bullshit anyway but that’s a total guess.
Ayden Cook
I wrote both of those, user. They are not contradictory.
Jackson Stewart
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Brandon Gutierrez
What I was trying to point out, besides that woman paying rent when she was 6, is how everything in america seems to be about number and performance. Money, number of books read, number of hours on average spent on every book so you can relate it to the number of academic hours needed to get a master's degree, etc.
What the fuck, do american ever do anything for fun or just because they enjoy it, and not because of money or for social credits
Jack Nelson
checked.
also I clicked the wrong post because i'm an inbred.
Hunter Jenkins
> mfw daddy realize his dream to become a banker
Zachary Hall
no. we're too busy winning.
Jayden Moore
>do american ever do anything for fun or just because they enjoy it, and not because of money or for social credits
Yeah, but people do have a tendency to turn things too competitive or into an opportunity for a life lesson or whatever. The average American is not as laser focused on such things as you might think.