Feeling Down.

[Martin200261]

There's a hell of a lot of suffering and people living on the edge going on in this country right now.
THIS is how SHTF is going to look in 21st century western world. There is no "one day it's fine, tomorrow the world goes nuts", it's just a gradual slip into poverty for the masses as the cost of living rises faster than wages increase. Riots will become more common but fractured and swept under the carpet, accepted as an inevitability in certain areas like is happening in France and has been for a while.
Increases in cost of living, unemployment, crime, dependance on the state and STILL leaving the immigration floodgates open... take a look through history and see where this usually ends...

I've thankfully just got a new job and live pretty frugally but trying to support my family on little better than minimum wage 47.5 hrs/week will still leave us living paycheck to paycheck, and the only way to gain some security is prepping, but prepping costs money too!

I wish everyone the best of luck during these hard times, but I can see them getting a lot worse

That's the way I see it going too. I'm finding that each month is a little tighter than the previous one and constantly cutting back on things we spend money on, meanwhile prices are rising like crazy all around us.

A family day out could easily blow away a hundred quid plus so we just don't do it any more. The grocery shopping is scarily expensive.

Reckon we will see some big events, the usual excuse for tpb to clamp down on us but not expecting any teotwawki events so looking more at bugging in than bugging out though preparing for either.

Feel you pain Paul, wish I had some answers