Comments by "Angry Kittens" (@AngryKittens) on "Why Do So Many Koreans Live With Their Parents? | Street Interview" video.

Isn't it widespread AND traditional throughout Asia and South America? It's partly to care for parents, partly to reduce unnecessary spending in anticipation of getting married. In the Philippines, everyone I know lived with their parents when they were single (if they worked nearby). Because living on your own doubles the cost of living. Triple, even, since you also have to send a portion of your income to help your elderly parents for groceries and stuff. They only moved out once they got married (usually late 20s to early 30s). And in most cases, they still lived very close to their parents (usually the women's parents). In more than a few cases, they just build another house within the family land, basically turning it into a compound. Though most kids do have a period of independence during college. Because they usually went and lived in a city temporarily for school. But almost everyone comes back to the family house. Unless they got married early, or they got a job soon after graduating in the cities. Still, a lot of them end up moving back to their hometowns when they reach their 40s or 50s, for the simple reason that their parents are becoming too old to live on their own. And it allows them to spend time with their grandkids, and vice versa, before it's too late. Most also want their kids to grow up in the same environment that they did. Since cities are not exactly ideal for raising kids. I personally prefer the living with the parents arrangement. It allows you to spend far more time with them as they grow older. I shudder to think of the nursing home culture in the west. Seeing your kids like twice a year, if you're lucky, and then you die.
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That's kind of the point? You live with them to TAKE CARE OF THEM when they get older. Because they took care of you. This isn't western culture where adults stay with their elderly parents and still expect them to do everything for them while they play Fortnite all day. Staying with parents in Asia means you find work, contribute to the household expenses. Slowly take over the chores that your parents did. Until by the time you're stable enough to marry, you've become the head of the household. That's literally the entire idea. In fact, having elderly parents who live on their own (or worse, a nursing home), is the thing that is considered shameful. Even children who move out will eventually arrange to have THEIR PARENTS move IN with them once they get to a certain age. For the same exact reason.
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@dslight113 That's the same thing? You do realize that you don't actually have to LIVE with your parents, right? The point here is taking care of them. You don't actually have to live under the same roof as them. Although that's what we Asians tend to do, because it's the cheapest option. Although I am laughing at the way you try to justify nursing homes by pretending to care about the jobs of caregivers. As if it is THEIR opinion that matters here. It's not. It's your parents whom you threw away in a nursing home that matters. Or are you really that naive to think old people in nursing homes are actually happy ? LOL. Remember, I'm from the Philippines. We are one of the largest exporters of caregivers and nurses. 4% of nurses and caregivers in the US are of Filipino descent. That's 1 out of every 25 people. WE KNOW HOW PEOPLE IN NURSING HOMES ACTUALLY FEEL And it's not the happy faces they show you when you visit them twice a year for a few hours. It's loneliness, homesickness, increasing resignation. Every part of your life is regimented. You can't do the things you actually want to do. You sleep at a certain time, eat only certain meals, meet the same people every day. Would YOU want to be in that situation when you grow too old to take care of yourself?
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