happycube (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} happycube) wrote,@ 2017-05-31 16:50:00 |
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Greetings from 2017
Decided to go back to my old blogs - I'm rather amazed that Livejournal's still around. Most of what we do is on local networks and community sites these days.
This all seems so naive now. worldwithoutoil ended at just the beginning of the... depression/crash/people-still-haven't-na
I do really odd jobs compared to Before. When I can I work on maintaining the local network here where I am, other times I work on maintaining anything, and other times I work on the field. My friends and I manage to eek out a living but it's nothing like Before. I was absolutely wealthy then by comparison.
Since this journal's a time capsule now (I felt bad updating it!) I guess I'll post a few big things that happened:
- Oil production kept sliding... it's about 40% of what it was. The oil sands are of very little help, although people are still trying to make something out of them without using up a ton of energy in the process...
- Famine was and is horrible in places. I think they've bottomed out but not without a lot of effort.
- There was another oil shock in 2009. This one didn't settle down at all.
- The rich are still rather rich, but not all of them could avoid what came...
- Housing prices went haywire and became very localized. I managed to buy a couple of older apartment buildings and a few acres of land while things were crashed, but that still doesn't make me rich at all... it's still tight. And I might need to replace the apartment buildings too... sigh.
[note that even though I own some land I still work... no idle landholderness for me, unfortunately ;) ]
- Eventually we went, kicking and screaming, back to an earlier standard of living. Materials quality isn't quite what it used to be, but I wound up building a couple of concrete/foam dome houses. Might have to replace the apartment complex with some, as I could at least afford to rebuild those every decade or two.
[OOG - I wrote this very fast to try to get in before the cutoff... I'll probably re-edit it later.]
Decided to go back to my old blogs - I'm rather amazed that Livejournal's still around. Most of what we do is on local networks and community sites these days.
This all seems so naive now. worldwithoutoil ended at just the beginning of the... depression/crash/people-still-haven't-na
I do really odd jobs compared to Before. When I can I work on maintaining the local network here where I am, other times I work on maintaining anything, and other times I work on the field. My friends and I manage to eek out a living but it's nothing like Before. I was absolutely wealthy then by comparison.
Since this journal's a time capsule now (I felt bad updating it!) I guess I'll post a few big things that happened:
- Oil production kept sliding... it's about 40% of what it was. The oil sands are of very little help, although people are still trying to make something out of them without using up a ton of energy in the process...
- Famine was and is horrible in places. I think they've bottomed out but not without a lot of effort.
- There was another oil shock in 2009. This one didn't settle down at all.
- The rich are still rather rich, but not all of them could avoid what came...
- Housing prices went haywire and became very localized. I managed to buy a couple of older apartment buildings and a few acres of land while things were crashed, but that still doesn't make me rich at all... it's still tight. And I might need to replace the apartment buildings too... sigh.
[note that even though I own some land I still work... no idle landholderness for me, unfortunately ;) ]
- Eventually we went, kicking and screaming, back to an earlier standard of living. Materials quality isn't quite what it used to be, but I wound up building a couple of concrete/foam dome houses. Might have to replace the apartment complex with some, as I could at least afford to rebuild those every decade or two.
[OOG - I wrote this very fast to try to get in before the cutoff... I'll probably re-edit it later.]
