Reply #242: Welcome to "the new reality"

[Vanje]

Daddy has to move away because there might be a job the next state over. Its a low wage job. But its a job. Daddy's gotta try.

Mommy stays where she is, because family cant live on one low wage income. She needs to keep her job at BigStore.
The kids stay with her, because they are in school , and besides Grandma lives nearby and provides free childcare while Mommy works at BigStore,for family's small , but sole reliable source of income.


Now our happy family lives in TWO houses that they can't afford.

(Sweet for investors! The rental markets gonna boom ! Get in on the ground floor! Invest in rentals!)


Daddy visits every other weekend , until the strain of living this way induces one or the other of them to file for divorce.



In that other 'Great Depression', back in around 1930, Daddy hit the road, seeking work, any work. He drifted from town to town , rode the rails, lived in Hoovervilles.


In this depression, there will be no Hoovervilles , because Hoovervilles to not exploit the poor to enhance the wealthy.
In this depression Hoovervilles will be torn down,(for the dwellers "own safety"), because they lack plumbing,clean water, dependable electricity. ,,, but mostly because Hoovervilles do not benefit the rich.