DALLAS: The kitchen and family room open on to the back deck through floor-to-ceiling glass doors.
It’s a trope, mainly promulgated by the Boomer generation, that to continue living with your parents, once you’ve crossed the threshold of adulthood, is a kind of developmental delay — a “failure to launch,” as one 1990s movie called it. But in fact, multi-generational living — to use a less pejorative term — will become more and more the norm in the next few years.
The most basic reason is that, given the cost of housing in Toronto and Vancouver, for example, moving out during or after university is simply not an option…