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).