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Adult daughter lives for free with us, wants us to pay to upgrade wifi for her
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What this really is is needs versus preferences, scope versus creep, boundaries versus endless optimization. A stable connection exists in shared spaces; enhancing a private workspace is a personal choice for a well‑paid adult who can pack the hardware when moving out. Hosts owe access, not infrastructure tuned to every preference, especially when hospitality is already underwriting most costs. This keeps gratitude from turning into a subscription and prevents small tech asks from becoming recurring line items.
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Clean solutions keep the peace. The daughter buys a mesh node or extender and takes it later, or runs ethernet or powerline for a reversible fix, or sets up a desk in a reliable corner and trades windows for uptime. The principle stays intact, the work gets done, and the family avoids arguing about Wi‑Fi like it is moral philosophy. Verdict: not wrong to say no.
‘She's a grown woman with a good job making good money’: Parents host their adult daughter rent-free after a breakup, she demands a Wi‑Fi upgrade for her bedroom, leading them to put their foot down
Parents host an adult daughter rent‑free after a breakup, and a home network quirk somehow gets promoted to a budget referendum about who bankrolls comfort upgrades in someone else's house. The signal is soft at one bedroom's edge, solid elsewhere, and the available alternatives are functional but not scenic, which makes them inconvenient rather than impossible. The request arrives as a principle that the homeowners should pay since it is their roof, while groceries, most dinners, and an imminent family vacation already flow one way, and the rent column reads zero. The reply is a calm no for the same reason good fences make good neighbors: generosity works best when it does not become procurement.
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