Monday, March 2, 2009
Positive side effects?
Nobody knows how many people would fall victim of the global crisis, not to mention the magnifying effects of the Hungarian recession we had already felt before the worldwide avalanche started. One of the inevitable consequences of the present economic and social situation in Hungary is that individuals learn to look after themselves and to take responsibility. Limited choices remain when we can no longer expect the government and our social systems to ensure our lifelong existence and contribute to our relative well-being: protest, fall or adapt.
Learning to make long-term future plans, thinking actively about the years ahead trying to find the narrow window of opportunity in today’s turmoil are the options for the ones who choose to look ahead.
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One trend we're seeing here in Portugal is that of urban areas getting kitchen gardens, where people "turn back to their roots", so to speak (many of those who now plant potatoes and carrots previously thought that chickens had four legs, as in any supermarket package).
Also, after a tendency for leaving cities in searh of a less stressful life and cleaner air (last 20 years or so) now people are leaving because they have to: no jobs, no security; thus creating a migration to smaller coastal towns (first tendency) and now even to the interior, to rural areas.
We're back to the basics.
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