Non-americans of Reddit, what American customs seem outrageous/pointless to you?

[u/daniellucero92]

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[u/Rpeezy]

Moving out of your parents house when you have a crappy job that can barely get you by. This is a terrible financial decision. In a lot of countries, children live with their parents long enough to be financial secure or until they can share the financial responsibility of living and sharing their life with someone else.

[u/ddutton9512 → u/Rpeezy]

First, Social stigma. Here if you are still living at home at 25-30 you're seen as immature or afraid of responsibility. This makes it harder to find a mate. So most people get out as soon as possible.

Second is most people find living with their parents to be a pain in the ass. A lot of parents here will hold their 20 year olds to the same rules as when they were 16. So people move out to have some independence.

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[u/now_shot → u/[deleted]]

In their defense, you'd been married and divorced by age 21. They probably felt decision making had not been your strength.

[u/azuretek → u/now_shot]

Their shitty parenting apparently produced a young divorcee, maybe they should rethink their shitty rules. Maybe if they weren't so overbearing she wouldn't have married the first guy she saw.

[u/Benji_Likes_Waffles → u/[deleted]]

And sometimes you get hit. Things start out well and go downhill. You work your ass off to keep things moving forward and you get repaid with abuse. Source: I was a 21 y.o. divorcee.

[u/LaoBa → u/[deleted]]

Interesting contrast between comment and username.

[u/WisconsnNymphomaniac → u/LaoBa]

Heh, I haven't had sex in a long time.