Family takes in people hard on their luck

[carlyhippy]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/personal/02/19/survivor.extendedfamily/index.html

After reading this, I pondered if there will ever be a return to commune living....groups living together growing gardens, taking care of the commune together etc. Probably not, commune living was in a different time before mcmansions, Hummers, Olive Garden, etc.

[blues90]

1. Commune living does seem the way to go

I think a good part of the reason it did not work in the 60's was the attitude of free love and the people who were there that did not contribute or pull their own weight.

It would be a tast to get people willing to make it work and to keep those out who were not. You can't develope your own police force and today who can you really trust if you don't know them.

But then nothing worth doing that is a good cause is easy.

[countingbluecars]

2. Some of those mcmansions

would make good boarding houses.

[carlyhippy]

3. yep they would, good idea

most of them have big backyards, one could grow a mighty garden.

[stuntcat]

4. the last time..

I mean during the Great Depression.. families were forced to move in together.

I saw an interview the other night with a man who lived during the depression. His point seemed to be that nothing we could see now could be as bad as they had it back then.
-He mentioned as an example how he got a 15% paycut.. BUT my husband has had a 5% paycut and the higher up people in his company, my father-in-law is one, have taken a 15% cut.
-He mentioned how many families had to live together to get by.. BUT it's starting to happen here & now.

His point seemed to be that there's no way in hell we could suffer like that now and maybe we won't but I just don't think it's the kind of thing people should assume. Our food and water getting to us depends on the industries moving.. a couple shutdowns in the wrong place and comfy suburbanites would have to all of a sudden learn what it really takes to get their food on the table.