Shirley, I just wrote to my family this morning on this very thing. You have said the way I feel also. Here is what I wrote this morning to my family:
Will we have to go back to multifamily dwellings like there was in the 50's and during the depression? It seems that with job losses, lot's of people losing their homes, rental property prices skyrocketing and becoming scarce, food and gas prices going up and not coming down, farmers losing their crops and everything else we may only survive in group communities. From some older guys I have talked to, yup older than me, they say this looks much like it did in the depression and afterward. I think things got better in the 50's and continued on but now it all seems to be regressing to that era. What's the answer for families like our's and our grandkids? I won't say I'm real worried about it due to the our families nature of survival but everyday it get's a little scarier out there on the streets. I am seeing more families down and out hanging out at our McDonalds in our town and using the bathroom everyday just to get clean. I am seeing families at street corners with buckets asking for money. When it reaches a bedroom community like ours it show's how serious this is getting. There are kids my grandkids ages that are with Mom and Dad begging for money to eat or for gas to get to their distant relatives. There are 2 senior mobile home parks here that they are either raising the rent on where seniors can't afford it or are tearing them down for condo's. Looks like my brother has the right idea up in the hills. Of course his place rivals any Army camp out there. Guess I'm just letting off steam about the world we are passing on.