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marmar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:03 PM Original message |
Sacramento Bee: Economy makes roommates of elders and their adult children |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. This topic always shows a cultural difference in America. |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:11 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. For a very long time,. it was normal here too |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. It's not 'culture' so much as poverty and lack of options |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Yes. We all have very rigid gender roles and I am (apparently) an unpaid servent. |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:59 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. You CHOOSE to do it! |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:34 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. I never said that it would work for everyone, I said that in our culture, |
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Mari333 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
3. I do *not* *ever* want to live with my son and his wife |
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The2ndWheel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 01:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. Cheap energy |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Jun-23-09 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
9. I'd love for my father to live with us... |
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