I agree. But it still feels shitty to live with mommy and/or daddy past, say, 30. Like you've failed at adulthood and manhood.

It's funny, because this "kick 'em out at 18" is pretty much a white american only phenomenon (and I suspect a relatively recent one): everyone everywhere else are perfectly happy to accrue intergenerational wealth together in the same household or homes in near proximity. To everyone else on earth, forcing all offspring to start at zero sounds like great cruelty.

In the Philippines, for example, it's normal for an entire extended family to all live in the same neighborhood, all houses in said neighborhood owned by blood relatives.