Tanguy syndrome is an emerging phenomenon across the world that started in Canada back in the the early zips.
It takes its name from a French-speaking film's young male character who spends his days at his
parents' tanning, not working at the ripe old age of 28!
The males around the globe are facing now a 'quarter-life crisis' in their late 20s and early 30s because of a dire job market and an economy that flips the young and aspirant the middle-salute: having no
work or
money to start their own seperate lives, these '
sad gards' return back to their
parents' homes and slack away their most productive and exciting years building in the process EFFs or 'extended financial families' (a.k.a.
ant-hill families: describes the 'piling' effect of having different generations all living and working in the same house, so much like an
ant-farm hill is).
Yeah, well blow this for a lark and welcome to the 'Slack Pack' if you are one of them!
Tanguy syndrome has many related words:
-permanent adolescents / adultscents.
-emerging adulthood.
-middle youth.
-kidults.
-childults.
-youthhood.
-rejuveniles.
-Boomerang
Kids/ Babies/ Children:
young babyboomers, or BBs' children who 'boomerang' back to their 'rents homes.
-parasite singles.
-twixters: 20-35 grads unmarried, unemployed and are still living at their
parents'
home.
-mommosexuals: metrosexuals that are coming back to their mamas to have a whiff at noshstalgia!
-mammones:
young men who won't give up their mamma's cooking in Europe. The 'Ities' were spot on right!
-Kippers/ KIPPERS:
in the UK it's an acronym for kids in
parents' pockets eroding retirement savings. Also known as Slops/ SLOPs (singles, living off
parents).
-nesthockers:
nest squatters or Germans who now look at their
parents as friends and live with... or 'off', them! Also called freeters an Engleutsch blendword of 'free' and 'arbeiter' (worker).