Before the crisis it was almost as chic. Now, in the middle, it is imperative for many: downsizing.
In business, this means that employees laid off, closing plants, adjust product lines. In the private economy, it means to cut back. Smaller houses, smaller cars, less consumption. Not easy, even psychologically, if before everything on larger, more comfortable, was set Luxurious. And in practice?
Mike and Sue want to downsize or her home. The children have left home, and it is not getting any younger. Looking for something near the city center, so that is out of their way to the office to the cafe or cinema a walk. Town feel, even in the small town.
But many do now. And the supply is limited. Small houses built no one more (apartments, there are hardly any case, this will indeed not one). If in recent years joined a small, old house the owner was either grown - or equal demolished and a new building twice as large raised.
hear Every city walk with my long-established neighbor Debbi I at least twice: "Oh my God, this was such a lovely old home - and now they are building this monstrosity !" Almost always standard buildings. MacMansions, always with prominent double garage, because in the old garages fit the new car is not clean. Yes, and the cars. Magda wanted to buy a few months ago a smaller, energy-saving car. A Toyota Prius, a hybrid car. Back then, gasoline cost just more than four dollars a gallon, a little over a dollar a liter, which by American standards murder moderately is expensive.
in six to eight months, they could get one, it was called the Toyota dealer. Or a used car in a few weeks - at the original price.
course there are always some to buy small cars. But so far below the usual level if one is issued containing not. Of course there are even small in Princeton, discount houses. But as thin, shabby and in the wrong area, it should of course not be.
ago, not long left to private market downsizing as hip and original. As for example, was on CNN a couple from California presented that had to be comfortable detached house with a mini "mobile home" traded at just under ten square meters of living space. It: to basics as a lucky chance - Downsizing to 100 square feet of bliss " .
"Small is the new big thing," it said in the heading Carz4Girlz of Auto Channel : small cars in this country called "economy cars", had long ceased uncool. Some are actually pretty spacious inside. "And no one can argue there is something cool about a vintage Mini Cooper."
Now it is not just cool when one of the jobs lost and running out of money. But it's always amazing how quickly and relatively harmless in times of crisis, Americans tighten their belts. Make the most out of it, not wait until the government or anyone else remedy.
" What's your new Plan B " asked about the New York Times a few days - after the old Plan B, is prematurely put up with their savings to rest or alternative life dream come true, was now burst. She found, among other things, an ex-financial consultant from Virginia, who now runs a mobile dog salon, and a Lawyer from New York, who operates from his apartment from a flower delivery.
"You have to pull yourself up by your bootstraps," you have to help themselves, says H., who has just lost her job as a consultant with an environmental agency and with her husband, then the computer considers whether they are the family you house can be done. "Who wants to work with you if you're negative?"
for his own problems, it is just yourself - even if there have worked so many financial jugglers on the misery on a large scale. "Twice we have sold homes and made in each case within two or three years, a six-figure income," said H. "Then you think just that is again good. "
your larger home in Princeton bought H. and her husband, expecting to be able to finance it with a sales gain from their old home in California. then collapsed the housing market. Now they are trying to hang on come to better times. If they were to sell their house now, then probably at a loss, calculates H.. "And then we would have indeed reduced, but stood financially perhaps not one whit better off."
As long as it is, limits you are in the small one -. is less, rather than buy at Shop Rite in the deli, terminated the contract with the gym Downsizing is out of conviction the exception. There is a need that occurs regularly on the nature of the American boom-and-bust economy - and hopefully soon disappear. Because a new boom is in the consumer technology can be upgraded again.
You do not look as black as the director of the short film "downsizing" of 2002, in which an "upper middle class family" gets into economic difficulties - and decides to get rid of one of their three children to their standard of living maintain.
That America is the most energy efficient eco-homes with small hybrid car in the Driveway in the foreseeable future the country is but not necessarily to be expected.
(Princeton Post XXV)
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