Quote: (06-24-2015 06:33 PM)Kamaki4 Wrote:
I get it, it's hard for some people to grasp the concept of living with your parents even if there isn't an economic need to do it. The last time I lived in Greece, 7 years ago, it was actually frustrating dating Greek girls. I would rarely meet one who didn't live at home, and this was before the crisis. A high percentage of Greek kids lived with their parents before the economic crisis, during the economic crisis and as illogical as it may seem, would continue to live at home even if unemployment shrank to near zero and wages rose to levels on par with Germany.
Over 10% of Greater Melbourne is of (relatively recent) Italian or Greek stock, add Yugoslavians it would be closer to 15%. You can definitely see what you describe even among the ones born and raised in Australia, even more so amongst the Greeks than the Italians and Yugoslavs, even though the Greeks here are wealthier. There is definitely some cultural component to this, not just economic.
My girlfriend's family is (North East) Italian and says among Italians those from the South, which has a Greek influence, are more clannish and even more likely to be mummy's boys.