More Families, Friends Move in Together

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more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2010-09-29-doubling-up_N.htm

By Haya El Nasser and Paul Overberg, USA TODAY

The Grundy family seemed to be headed down the conventional path followed by American families: Daughter goes to college, graduates, gets a job and her own apartment.
Then something happened.

"She lost her job," Vel Grundy says about daughter Monika, 25. "She kept looking and got very, very discouraged. She moved back home."

Grown children returning home. Brothers and sisters moving in together. Families taking in grandparents. Friends living in the basement.

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1. Sounds like

Sounds like life in my fiancee's country, the Philippines. 15 people in one home, that is what corrupt government and crushing poverty and unemployment get you. If things don't change here, the US will be heading that way in 50 years.

[katty]

2. yes, I think it will be less than 50 yrs

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3. I think that's going to be the "new normal." nt

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4. Not so long ago here, it was the 'normal'...

Other than being the result of deteriorating conditions, nothing wrong with it. My wife's cousin in her 50's has been trying to find work for two years and now she is living in our basement. We have plenty of room, she helps around the house, it works out fine.