Any man who stays in his family home past twenty years loses the chance to bottle his childhood; he sits and rots it
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multi-generational homes are probably one of more laudable mexican traditions, although it’s obviously very different from an anglo home.
I actually quite like the idea of multi-generational homes, and I suppose there's some parallel in the English upper-classes with family seats
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it’s a good cycle. children stay home with their grandparents or go to school, adults work. expenses are kept down through early parenthood, the elderly don’t age lonely, and kids feel responsibility for their family as they mature.
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It seems like a good system, but you might be right that it's incompatible with the anglo sensibility. My Mexican and Spanish friends have told me that England has a reputation for strange and ruthless individualism
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Also (since Dickens) a strange preoccupation with preserving childhood
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