Why are there so many basement dwellers in modern society?

xRatatosk said:
I've been on my own since 18, and it's fucking amazing. Just throwing it out there.

DesuMaiden said:

How old are you now? You sound like Undertakerfreak1127. That kid has been living on his own since high school graduation. He never attended university, and he is doing fine with his girlfriend. He is turning 24 this November.

katsucats said:
There are no basements in Los Angeles. The water table is too high.

Afshar said:
git rekt, katsu

DesuMaiden said:
no ambitions of contributing to society in a meaningful way.

Lime_ said:
Why are 50% of your threads about basement dwelling?

katsucats said:
Because he's a basement dweller himself, obviously. Looking for validation.

LashLethal said:
I don't know what's worse, being a corporate slave or being a basement dweller.

LashLethal said:
I don't know what's worse, being a corporate slave or being a basement dweller.

katsucats said:
Aren't anime consumers corporate slaves?

katsucats said:
What does it mean by contributing to society? Does making money, then spending it on hookers and drugs count?

Thebigofan said:
I don't want have have my own family, so I plan on living with my parents until they die. It doesn't seem too bad to me.

DesuMaiden said:

How old are you now? You sound like Undertakerfreak1127. That kid has been living on his own since high school graduation. He never attended university, and he is doing fine with his girlfriend. He is turning 24 this November.

Shiratori99 said:
Cause they don't want to fulfill society's expectations and do what they want instead.

Working_Designs said:
Simple, living with your parents means you don't have to pay any bills. Some of us don't mind living with our parents, even if it means a slight lack of privacy.

Kibura_Iburasa said:
one thing first is I don't believe there is any set standard to life. nobody should have done anything by 20 something especially starting a family, you don't have to start a family at all.

Also is there any wonder why this is happening more and more? there are many reasons working together to create this wave of basement dwellers. One reason would be the past 20 years of targeting nerds and people who are different when they were in school in the 90's/2000's growing up as a group of individuals been told they will never make anything of themselves in life and that been different gets you targeted and what I noticed extra been that society seems to just want you out of the way and not bothering anyone.

Two would be the modern economy, no jobs no employers willing to take on anyone without experience leads to a massive market of people with no work or incapable of getting work well into their twenties. So they head off to university hoping a degree will help them out only to spend 3 years studying something that doesn't help them and ending up in massive debt, usually forced to return to their parents house temporary at first before they fall into an inescapable pattern of only having enough money to survive and pay rent but not get a better job or move out.

These two seem to be the main two reasons but there are plenty of other reasons all piling on top of each other to create the basement trap for this generation of young people. Face it most of us don't have hope anymore, we arn't the go getters the dreamers the motivated. We watch the news we see for ourselves the state of the jobs industry and when all we are told is all we can expect to find is some small minimum wage job to work for the next 50 years then die. Well that kind of thing been re-enforced everywhere we turn starts to wear you down. Eventually you just give up and stay in your parents basement living best you can.

Its a rich tapestry of failure, broken promises from the last generation and no future or hope.

I moved to the city, went to university got an apartment and tried to get a professional career. Now im back home in some little nowhere town living in my parents living room on some cushions. Applying for over 30 jobs every month with only 1 replied in the past 3. Just another example of a future we were promised by others been taken away by government, the modern age and the recession.

Welcome to a world where our generation has no future.

ComicConReviews said:


UTF is autistic that is not fine

Working_Designs said:
Simple, living with your parents means you don't have to pay any bills. Some of us don't mind living with our parents, even if it means a slight lack of privacy.

DesuMaiden said:

Where's your proof that UTF1127 is autistic? And how does that matter? Even though he is supposedly autistic, he is still living on his own at the age of 24, whereas most people 24 these days still live with their parents. He started living on his own at a relatively young age compared to most people these days.

Kitska said:
Starting a family in your 20's in pretty early. My parents didn't have me until their 40's.

DesuMaiden said:
In modern society we have a bunch of people in their 20s and 30s who continue to live with their parents. On the other hand, their parents started families by the time they reached their 20s or 30s. Why are these people incapable of living independently when they are already adults?

One reason why people are unable to start their own families in their 20s is because they are burdened by student loan debt. They graduated with tens of (sometimes even hundreds of thousands) of dollars of student loan debt that they can't pay off. There is no way they can start their own family, buy a car, buy a house, or live on their own with that much student loan debt, especially if all they are stuck with is a low-paying, minimum wage job. Their inability to pay off a seemingly insurmountable amount of student loan debt is one of the reasons why they can't start their own families and live independently of their parents.

Another reason is because people simply want to mooch off their parents for longer. By your mid to late twenties, you should already have started your only family, but nowadays, these basement-dwellers continue to live off their parents and have not started their own family. They continue to live the easy life of mooching off their parents, because their parents wouldn't kick them out of their house.

Those are my two theories for why there are so many basement dwellers. Does anyone else have a better explanation for why there are so many basement dwellers? I think there needs to be a solution to the current basement-dweller phenomenon. You can't have a society full of people who continue to live with their parents forever.

I'm making this thread because I'm already 24 1/2, and I still haven't started my own family. My dad and mom gave birth to me when they were only 26. I should start my own family by 26 years old, and stop living with my parents by then. I don't care if I finish my university degree or not. University is worthless, in my honest opinion. I just want to start a family by the time I'm 26. Or no later than 30 years old.

Hoppy said:
I don't want to raise a family, this is no generation to raise kids (too PC, education screwed over, no real childhood anymore, etc.) and second, this is no generation to find love, I'll wait until the third wave feminism goes away to get a wife.

Lime_ said:
I understand wanting to pursue things that you enjoy and that pique your interest

but a lot of people are coming to a harsh realization that the things they enjoy simply don't bring in money - I think it would do a lot of people good to research how viable their career paths are before investing years in an education that will leave you jobless