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The Cost Of Being Home

I have been a fan of being home my whole life. I believe your home isn’t just where you are but who you are. Putting down roots, choosing paint colors, planting your first tree—it’s not just part of the American dream, owning a home is also claiming a space in the world that brings emotional and spiritual comfort.

And yet, there’s a push out there to herd people into apartments–part of the great brainwashing of America. “You will own nothing and like it!” as Klaus Schwab, head of the World Economic Forum (an unelected official), so famously said a few years ago. If you knew how much influence Schwab has over your life you’d be absolutely gobsmacked.

Part of the plan of the Great Reset, besides things like cutting down or eliminating meat from your diet, or banning your gas stove, includes having people move to walkable cities and living greener lives in smaller apartments. This is the future, if the powers that be have anything to do with it. If you’d like to validate this information, simply go to the United Nations website and look for Agenda 2020/2030 or pick up a copy of Schwab’s book and read it for yourself.

Just today, Architectural Digest–a magazine showcasing some of the world’s most beautiful homes and some of the best design and architect professionals, had an online article proclaiming living in 300 square-foot apartments is the best idea humanity ever had. “Micro Apartments Are the Best Thing to Happen to the Planet!” is what it actually said. And here’s another quote from the article: “Because of climate change, if we want to live in a decent world in the next decades, architecture has quite a big role to play,” says Matthieu Torres, an architect based in Paris.

Of course, micro apartments can be undeniably tight, but there are many solutions that make this arrangement more comfortable, we’re told. Consider co-living, which is a “close cousin” of micro apartments. Mico-units share amenities. You rent a room in a shared flat or a private studio–all with a relatively small footprint–and you get access to multiple amenities like an art studio, a recording studio, a gym, a library, a rooftop, a dining hall, and a lounge. Does that sound like a hotel to you?

This kind of thing might sound good to the new young adults in the world who are starting to come to terms with the idea that home ownership may be permanently out of reach for them. I don’t have to tell any of you what happened to the housing market in the last few years. Interest rates, soaring prices for homes, mad competition, home insurance costs, building supplies–it’s all just beyond the scope of my imagination. Even heating a small home now is exhorbitant.

I’m of the mind we are being trained to forgo home ownership. Within the next ten years, what’s left of the middle class will have a tough time remaining in their homes if financial relief and a return to normalcy doesn’t return to earth.

I have a daughter who has been shut out of the housing market entirely. She’s already resigned to renting for the foreseeable future, as are many of her friends. She’s raising two boys and I’m trying to picture her in a 500 sq ft micro apartment. But then, the future will see people having fewer children, so perhaps the micro home will be more doable in the reimagined future of the world.

We’re not feeling the pressure as much as they are in Europe. With gas bills prohibitively high, people in Italy are looking to alternative energy sources to stay warm this winter – but the cost of these is also spiralling, a new survey shows.

The overall cost of gas over the past 12 months in Italy was 67 percent higher than in the previous year. But those hoping to save money by using alternative energy sources to heat their homes may now be disappointed, as the latest analysis shows fuel costs are soaring across the board. Firewood? 175 percent more expensive.

Several Italian regions have rules limiting the use of wood-burning stoves.

But there are also limits on when and for how long you can switch on your central heating in Italy – as well as how high you can turn it up. In some parts of the country, it’s not deemed necessary until December.

A cheap apartment is sounding kind of good right now, isn’t it? Tough times are ahead for the people of our earth. Now more than ever we need people to start paying attention and voicing their concerns.

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