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On that basis, 'White Flight' from South Africa might be a telling sign. I first went to SA in 1972 as a kid, and have returned a few times since 2001. The housing / crime situation there now seems far worse now than in the 70s. Back then, affluent gardens were open plan, and the police were brutal....

44. Me and Mrs Mustard have 2 rescue dogs, no kids. Overpaying mortgage which will be paid for next year, I started with a half share of a house for ?7,500 in 1983 when I was 20. How different things are now. Started digging around on the web for the big picture, to start thinking about where to put...

My first shameless rip-off of an interesting topic which appeared a while back on LATOC. My Peak Oil 'canary' in that discussion was large crowd events, eg sports events, various hobby shows etc, and especially airshows. Maybe John Busby's suggestions (see the 'Letter to the Times' thread) that the ...

Staggering post, Cat. This 44 year old has been uneasy for some time about how the slightly younger generations are getting pulverised. You just summed it all up in one post. I sincerely hope it all works out, with that level of insight and intelligence you will surely carve yourself out a happy lif...

Thanks Civ101 - That's the kind of time lag / runaway feedback things I was thinking but couldn't properly describe. Must enrol for a degree in environmental studies or somesuch.

Did anyone else see this headline letter in Tuesday's Times? " Fiddling while Rome runs out of combustibles" "Sir The absurdity of the Tory proposal to 'ration' air travel is that any such restriction on aviation fuel consumption will soon be overtaken by the event of oil depletion. [...

Before I got into researching future trends, and finding websites like this and reading the Mogambo Guru (he makes me laugh while describing financial meltdown every week), I did a bit of research into the positive psychology movement. Definitely worth looking up in the library - Authentic Happiness...

Saw them de-fuelling the tanks at Tescos today. Lots of trucks and orange flashing lights. The loss of the Saturday trade must be hitting them hard, but that's the least they deserve after denying there was a problem for days on end. Customers don't like that sort of thing... Suppose it's another il...

There was a short speculative item on my local BBC TV news this morning where a sad anorak spotter who's mad enough to hang around the perimeter fence reckons there's been a big upsurge of activity at Mildenhall.

If he was a Greek Geek, doing that sort of thing would land him in jail.

Thoughts from this sad planespotting subscriber to International Air Power Review .... The IDF/AF have launched long distance strike packages before. Eg, Tunis, Osirak, and Entebbe, though the latter only involved C-130s. Unless it was very well targeted, or nuclear armed, any attack would still lik...

Which kind of makes this latest report a bit dubious, but such are economic forecasts. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6396617.stm Wonder where those overstretched American consumers will find the money to keep their 70% share of the US GDP going. The Mogambo Guru was right all along, and we're ...

I don't see any difference beween the USA and UK. Offshoring of jobs, leaving pressured corporate or low quality service jobs in a bubble economy. Creation of excess money and credit always leads to inflation. Just like printing presses in Weimar or Harare. In the UK easy money has distorted house p...

Add to that mix an increasingly aged population, relatively unfit and many with inadequate pension provision, either because it hasn't been built up in the first place or eroded by inflation or monetary bust. Then some weird weather and havoc on crops. And a few nasty expensive wars here and there. ...

Maybe it'll be that obscene Dodge Caliber (hopefully with the ad execs inside) or that ugly 300C Touring monster thing that go over the cliff.

That's settled then!