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A house near their house?

That's sounds terrible. How far away from this ideal are they? Are they talking "we already have steady careers and making plans for the next few years", or is it more like "still teenagers/young adults and he still lives with his parents and doesn't know better and getting married would not happen before at least five to seven years so he has plenty of time to realize he wants something different?"

For your friend's sake, I really hope it's the second, that he's still a mama's boy that he'll go to college and enlarge his horizons and realize that he does not have to be so close to family. I mean, really, the horror. If you're within a walk away from them, you can be sure that the mother-in-law will come knocking at the door and the son will be overjoyed because she'd be bringing food!

Seriously.

Sounds horrible.