Wow, touched a nerve much?
I live at home with my parents over the age of 30 because I cannot afford to live on my own. But when I lived on my own, I never understood why people ran off to virtually exurbia (where I live, people drive 2-3 counties to get to work on the claim of “cheaper housing”) while complaining about how eveything goes downhill in the city. Now, because my job is local, I spend very little on gas,compared to other things.
What Ms. Berry is saying is right, and I think it’s a hard pill to swallow for folks who always thought things would be easy. Americans have the lowest savings of any nation and you can’t blame Bush or the Dems or Congress or oil drilling. No one complained about drilling until the prices came too much and now all of the sudden people think gas will fo back to 1999 prices overnight.
Read The Overspent American by Judith Schorr sometime. She wrote that in the 90′s when we had a better economy.
