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  • From: Pego Rice <firekeeper38@yahoo.com>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] like the early 1900's?
  • Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 23:27:52 -0700 (PDT)

I see you are assuming that Brits order their finances the same over-extended way Americans do.  You can get home and other loans in the UK but they are more conservative. (In the old sense of the word)  A bit of forewarning will do them plenty of good to try and wrap up loose fiscal ends and un-sorted out localizations.  If this had not been already done, I'm sure their current straights would have gotten them moving a bit.  The whole country is uncomfortably aware, right now, of how close to the food edge they are running with out-sourced foods.  They also have living memory of near-complete food isolation, for years on end.
 
Surprisingly, other countries are even more conservative than the UK.  My understanding is that Italians do not generally buy home property until they can pay out of pocket.  The payback for extended family living is being able to save up.  Italy has also been in the front of the re-localization movement and retains much of it's foraging tradition.
 
Yours, Pego




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