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Extended Family Returns Out Of Pure Necessity
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11/15/08
Spoken like a true Philip Roth character.
11/15/08
I'm a financial guy, right? So I try to advise people I know on these matters. This includes my parents.
They bought a fairly large house just before the real estate collapse - against my wishes - and filled it up with furniture on credit - despite my protests. They're doing fine and all, making payments and paying down all the debt they accumulated, but I asked my dad what he plans to do about retirement. He had cashed out his 401(k) a few years back during a rough patch. He says to me: "Don't worry, I've got the ROK plan."
This was not an acronym I'm familiar with, so I went "What the hell is that?"
He looks at me and says "Rely On the Kids." Good thing I've got some siblings. Then he says to me "Besides, I've got a bad heart. You've just got to worry about your mother."
We're a deeply flawed society.
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But that's only if they're so loaded they have 7 or so houses of their own. Otherwise it'll be me helping them w/their various life expenses. It was always my dream to set my grandmother up like that one day. So, I don't think it's so far-fetched!
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We were thinking I would buy a place of my own and then the market and my family's investments went to shit. So I'm stuck here indefinitely.
80 percent of my worldly possessions are in a storage locker. I've been sleeping on an Aerobed since April. We are all tremendously miserable; We've all reverted to how things were when I was in high school. "Where are you going?" "Who are you going out with?" "How do you know him/her?" "When will you be home?"
The one nice thing about living at home is that I am incrementally paying down my one remaining credit card.
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I don't live in my mom's house (yet!) but she lives within a mile and we are with her tons. She can be a real crank, my five year old daughter can get plenty sick of me, and there are times that they are the only thing for each other. Multi-generational life is a good thing.
This is a bad thing for our shopping habits, but I think it could be better for society.
Yeah, very over-sincere, but I do believe it.
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The key is having your own place within the building itself.
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Bookish, if you're feeling lonely, I can move in with my dog and my parents.
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That would be the little one b.r. cottage out in the backyard next to the detatched garage.
Quaint!
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