On a recent episode of “Keeping up with the Kardashians”, America’s favorite step-dad and Olympic gold medalist, Bruce Jenner was sick and tired of his 22-year-old step-son living for free at home after attending college.In this episode, young Rob Kardashian is shown lounging at the pool, eating chips, watching television in the middle of the afternoon and having “after hours” at mom and step-dad’s house at 3am.

The kicker of the entire scenario is that Rob has a degree in business from USC and has all the connections in the world but still wanted to live like he was on Holiday Break at Casa De Familia.

With the above scene painted, imagine when Jenner who is usually a pushover, decides to flex some Olympic muscle by simply annoying the grown man into feeling like he did when he was a teen- MUST GET OUT.Needless to say after a few weeks of harassment from Jenner, Rob Kardashian finally got a big boy job to save and move out.

When young people are in high school, their worst nightmare is to live with mom and dad.What happens in the span of five years from 18-23 where living for free and eating home cooked meals from mom’s kitchen sounds more appealing than living in a studio apartment with soup packages for dinner? Five years prior to this stage, teens are chomping at the bit to get out of the house.For some reason, student loan nightmares, graduate school temptation, the prospect of saving money and not having school for once in your life is now turning into a modern gateway of living with family members for free.

It doesn’t stop at post-collegiate life either.Remember the movie “Grandma’s Boy”?Having a “sweet race car bed” is great for comedic relief but it’s not so funny when you’re at a bar and you meet someone you want to take home on a Saturday night.Having a sleepover in a twin bed at 32 is not so hot anymore is it?

I just am not grasping the connection in my head why it is more uncommon to leave the nest than it was 10-20 years ago.It seemed like people used to think living at home was a sign of failure, now it seems like a luxury item. For the ‘Wassup Readers’ that are in the bar enjoying this little article right now, the challenge is to casually talk to people who look old enough to be able to afford a house and see how many may admit to living in their childhood home or with relatives.

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