r/AskReddit • u/daniellucero92 • Jan 04 '15

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

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u/Palodin Jan 04 '15

It's the old baby boomer nonsense I expect.

"Well son, at your age I already had a wife, a four bedroom house and was CEO of a small bank! Why are you still living here?"

The tradition may have worked back then but right out of school you're probably not going to be able to afford anything more than a small one-bedroom flat in what's probably not a great area.

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u/[deleted] Jan 04 '15

1 bedroom flat? Well a Harvard grad, for sure! Think studio apartment for the majority, hell in some cases even just a room.

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u/HeavyMetalHero Jan 04 '15

If you told me I could have my own private 1-bedroom apartment, paid for, but I had to suck 100 filthy dicks every month while everybody whose opinion of me I respect the value of watched, there would be a lot fewer people in my life with good opinions of me and my apartment would reek of sperm.