Honestly, I hope one of the side-effects of the current crises is that there is a re-assessment of the value of multi-generational households. We are currently in the process of building a new home (planned before Covid-19) that will accommodate my wife's senior mother as well as provide a future shared home for our son.
Bravo. This is, IMHO, one of the biggest problems with the United States, we throw away our elders. In other countries, such as Russia, it is very common to have three or four generations living in the same home, with the elders providing much support for the family, such as cooking or running the quarter-acre garden in the back yard.
They really sold us on a bunch of crap last century with the "atomic" family and suburban keep up with the Jonses bull.
Also, the massive size of the US and it's larger cities isn't helping.
For comparison, (it might be my limited experience with people from the US) but several people i know move across the continent for jobs/school never to move back again.
This is not a bad thing per se, but seeing your parents only a couple of times a year seems very weird to me.
In comparison, most of my peers live in or near the city they lived in their entire lives (i know of only one example of someone who lives further away (2h drive).
Being near your parents/grandparents is important, especially when you have children. It creates a sense of community that is hard to explain.
