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Living with parents: Three views
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Stuck with 11 others and one toilet
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Wednesday's letter by Mr Peter Huber, 'Few babies? It's the Hotel Mama mindset'.
Well said, Mr Huber.
I am 42 years old this year and remember the times when my married sister with her family of four crammed together with six of us - her siblings - in a rented four-room flat.
There were a total of a dozen of us, counting our parents - all sharing a single toilet.
The reason: Half a dozen of us were single and
had not reached the age of 35, and so were ineligible to buy resale flats and move out.
To describe living conditions then as stressful is an understatement.
I yearned for my own flat, especially when I visited the homes of my married friends.
However, Mr Huber is not entirely right when he states that most of us can live as long as we want at Hotel Mama - that is, our parents' flat.
In fact, some parents do not welcome the prospect of having unmarried children in their 30s living with them.
Christine Wong (Ms)
Living with parents: Three views
</TR><!-- headline one : start --><TR>Stuck with 11 others and one toilet
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Wednesday's letter by Mr Peter Huber, 'Few babies? It's the Hotel Mama mindset'.
Well said, Mr Huber.
I am 42 years old this year and remember the times when my married sister with her family of four crammed together with six of us - her siblings - in a rented four-room flat.
There were a total of a dozen of us, counting our parents - all sharing a single toilet.
The reason: Half a dozen of us were single and
had not reached the age of 35, and so were ineligible to buy resale flats and move out.
To describe living conditions then as stressful is an understatement.
I yearned for my own flat, especially when I visited the homes of my married friends.
However, Mr Huber is not entirely right when he states that most of us can live as long as we want at Hotel Mama - that is, our parents' flat.
In fact, some parents do not welcome the prospect of having unmarried children in their 30s living with them.
Christine Wong (Ms)
