I think it's fascinating how people will lionize or try to act like how they struggled in their upbringing should be the standard model, or that it goes without saying
like the (American?) assumption that once you're 18 you should move out or else start paying your parents rent?? and I know some of this will come down to necessity and/or finances but like
almost all of my friends/peers got to live rent-free with their parents into their 20s, because the expectation here is that you go to university (school here is at most a couple thousand per semester for most programs) and should be able to focus on your studies at least through your undergrad. and that if you want to work while in school, it's to build up savings for when you do eventually move out.
and because that's how I grew up (and saw those around me grow up), I just cannot get behind this like...Protestant work ethic nonsense, frankly, where "I moved out at 17 and got a job and I only got to go back to school in my 20s once I could afford to" is treated not as an unfortunate necessity but as character/value-building
