A foreigner's experience in Croatia (long term)

deal with the whole turn into your parents and live ar home for the rest of your life

I don't think this is fair, a lot of people don't live with their parents but when they do it is often because of great convenience and support. Grandmothers and grandfathers here are involved with their children and grandchildren's lives, they watch the grandkids, they cook for the parents - and this is super useful because it enables both parents to work and have personal lives, it is fun for the kids and gives them more people who love them, and grandparents also feel important and aren't lonely. While I don't personally want kids and if I did, probably still wouldn't live in the same house (it is usually still separated to private floors), I would welcome having my parents nearby to help out.

It seems much more fulfilling and convenient than reading about Americans where as soon as they have kids their lives turn into this nasty terror where they have no time to themselves, sometimes one has to give up work, everything revolves around it... and their relationship with their own parents is shit. Not really an ideal.

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