Re: Joint family guys
I think the real joint family system is very rare at present Pakistan. my father and uncles initially had joint family system, but they moved out cause of their jobs and native houses were devided very later in life, my father and my uncle has still native shared house, where we only go for few days. and he lives there with his family. we may not exercise our right on that house practically as we are not going live there and will not sell to him either.
our agriland is still joint. though produce is shared sometime.
We and other uncles always lived separate families even being in same cities.
I dont know if you call living with in laws is a joint family system too. cause to me where I have no brothers i tend to live with my parents with my wife. though at present they visit us in london on and off and we go there once a year. eventually we will move back to Lahore and will stay with them.
To me i dont think its fair that i would leave my parents alone in old age to have a separate life. It also good for my kids they will have love from grands and positive effect on our own lives.
However if i had any brother then situation could have been different and i would have opted separately.
I have close friend who tried to live in very large joint family system, but it didnt work out very well. though they all four brother had separate houses within a very large piece of land in good locality in Lahore. their wives had rota on house hold chores and it worked well for 5-6 years, but when all started to have families, it wasnt very pleasent between them specially wives. so they eventually moved to separate new houses.