“Am I being unreasonable to wonder why retired parents live in big houses and don’t help family?”
This is the question that user Dojos (whom we assume is a woman based on the forum) asked in a recent Mumsnet thread; a question that was met with some very real responses.
Obviously struggling with her own immediate family finances, the woman said she isn’t “judging”, but couldn’t help but notice that both sets of grandparents have multiple properties, while her own family is “struggling to make ends meet.”

Dojos noted that she understood that "inheritance is a gift, not a right," but still questioned how the senior family members could sleep at night in their large homes with empty rooms, knowing their kids and their grandkids were struggling to fit into less palatial accommodation.