all arabs that move to the west get hit with the hard reality of working in Europe and the US and immediately miss living back home even if you were only scraping by money-wise.

@ferrarilegends Funny enough a buddy of mine agreed with this. "sure we were poor as shit but at least we were experiencing a life more than 2 days every week or so, and then 10 years before we die."
Fuck me that's brutal.
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its why most of the older people that become well off just take their money they made and go back home, or they still keep their businesses around in the US and use that money back home to game the system.

@ferrarilegends see, I used to think it was laziness, now I realize it's just giving a shit about the quality of your life. @n8

exactly. american society was brainwashed to think that actually caring about yourself and your family over money and the small, statistically miniscule chance to generate lots of wealth by stepping thru the career ladder is laziness.

@ferrarilegends It's also worth noting how annoyingly narrow the definition of family is in the USA. In the Middle East and Asia "family" is broad as fuck. In the USA they have to preface with "extended family" if it's not your immediate family which is dumb. @n8

even in the middle east, you'll see children raising their own families at their parents home. even some of the more well off families in the middle east will just expand their houses into mini-houses to let their kids raise their families in, or they'll just live near each other.

Yeah, back in the countryside of the Philippines it isn't uncommon for a whole chunk of a street to be made up of relatives. Why, I could just walk down the round and I'd be able to stumble into the abode of an aunt or great-uncle I've yet to meet. They're all close knit too, very common to be visited before dinner time by a relative trading part of their dinner for a part of yours to share with their part of the family.

@Rhodesian_YuKari With the housing market as fucked as it is, this may become something America has to deal with. It's also why my buddy was shocked that my parents charge me rent for living at home (housing market is fucked here, rental market even worse)

"yeah so they're charging me rent?"
"White people do that?"
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