🗨️ Let’s lose our stiff upper lip and be better neighbours in the cost of living crisis 'We can sometimes look after those around us in a way that doesn’t involve any financial transaction' ✍️ NellFrizzell
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When I was a child, my street didn’t have a neighbourhood watch. But we did have a neighbourhood witch. Genuinely. She knew about flower remedies, had a cat, long hair, read tarot and lent me the spare key to my front door whenever I’d accidentally locked myself out. Which was often.of the early 1990s – one of the other times when we had a Conservative government and young people wore unattractively baggy t-shirts. I remember that recession.
; and I’m nearly 40. The Bank of England has raised interest rates for the sixth time, the inflation rate is currently at over nine per cent and predicted to raise to 13 per cent by the end of the year, causing the greatest drop in living standards since the 1960s, when these things started to be quantified in that way. When we talk about, that’s what we mean; things cost more, you earn less and everything becomes harder.
For most people, though, the mud skid into autumn and winter is going to bring stress, anxiety and practical difficulties. We are going to run short, our temperatures will flare and we will worry. Which is where the need for community comes in.. If you are lucky enough to be able to build a network of people around you then their skills, resources and knowledge will all reduce your need for money.
They will drive you to the station, lend you their blender, offer up any weird things that came in their online shopping, come and fix a leaking sink, print something out for you, put together flatpack furniture and look after your children.
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