[apavlinovic]

As someone who lives in eastern Europe, where "multigenerational living" is the norm, what the hell is this author talking about?

His issues with his mother are not a generalised problem with multigenerational living, nor the majority of people living in these arrangements experience it.

The aggregated knowledge of all the members of a household is invaluable, and much of this article reads like "I am not used to having family around me, so I will write about how terrible and anguishing this makes me feel."

We even have a saying in our country, which goes along the lines "It takes an entire village to raise a child", and it holds.

[alephnerd]

It's The Walurus. It's basically a Canadian knockoff of The Atlantic or The New Yorker.

They all tend to subsist off long form articles heavy on pathos and ethos and less on logos. It helps drive engagement statistics that way

They all basically follow the narrative writing format used in Expos 10 and 20

[dkjaudyeqooe]

It might be the norm, but that doesn't mean it always works or is the right way to live. Some people have terrible parents or difficult children. You may think it's great, but I was raised in that environment and I did not like it. Ditto for community life that you allude to.

The bit that you don't mention is the pressure to conform or 'go along to get along' that environment breeds. Give me the anonymity and personal freedom in large city any day. Here's another saying: "Hell is other people."

[varjag]

From a fellow Eastern European, it's the norm only because people are poor.

[izacus]

Even in Eastern Europe you should be aware of the concept of "not everyone's experience is the same". Yes, even here in Eastern Europe there's plenty of people stuck in really toxic and problematic relationships when they live together with parents, many of them leading to divorce.

Don't overgeneralize your small bubble. For anything.