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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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To: GraceZ who wrote (4588)8/21/2002 1:48:18 PM
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How many kids will grow up and remember Mom's great granite counters or Sub Zero fridge? Frankly they'd be better off remembering a long summer night spent out on the lawn with home cooked food, friends and family, telling stories

Hitting the nail on the head, you are.

Pendulum swing the other way, it must, sooner or later.

The problem is this "Landed Gentry" thing emerging creating socially isolated enclaves, connected only by mass media as their common experience. Since assets are transferrable into cash as the "universal good" in blind economic parlance, it seems like a "good thing" to covet this asset expansion, even in competition with social contraction.

Whatever happened to classic liberal arts education and the ideals of socialing among friends, family. I'd like to see some numbers comparing hours working/discussing work/thinking about work, versus non-work socializing, compared with 50 years ago.
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