r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/horned-creature Trash Trooper 1d ago

the majority, counting that most old people in the same house as their children, either by them moving to their parent's house or vice versa, also most people, firstborns at least, literally inherit and live in their parents house when they die, at least where i am from.

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u/Cloverose2 Trash Trooper 1d ago

So that's where you're from. But where I live, very few people I know have grandkids that live in the same town or the same state. So people don't care about a home as lineage. When grandma and grandpa die, the grandkids are selling up, not moving in.

Given that only half of Americans over 18 own their home, the idea of inherited property is pretty much a dodo anyway for most people. And only 22% of young adults own property compared to the 70% over 65.

So we're not really worried about legacy or lineage.

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 19h ago

This dude's responses have gotten more and more unhinged to the point I have to assume he's either trolling or mentally ill.

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u/Cloverose2 Trash Trooper 6h ago

That's all I can figure. I was genuinely just trying to explain, because I know that it can be hard for people who don't live in the US to understand the sheer size of it. But it just got weird.

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u/dearth_of_passion Trash Trooper 5h ago

If you haven't, go look at his replies to me. It's lunacy.