Housing Crisis and Divorce
Dec. 30th, 2008 10:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
walkitoutCalculated Risk has been talking for a while about how the housing crisis is affecting the mobility of employees in the US, long considered a big benefit of the job market in this country. But the housing crisis also affects people trying to split up. This ground has been covered in a variety of areas, most recently here at the NYT:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/30divorce.html?_r=1
I am reminded of Mira Kirshenbaum's excellent book, _Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay_. While this article frames it as, oh, so sad that the relationships have to continue after the divorce, another way to look at it is that a booming housing market facilitated divorce. Weird stuff.
ETA: H/T CR again, of course.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/30/us/30divorce.html?_r=1
I am reminded of Mira Kirshenbaum's excellent book, _Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay_. While this article frames it as, oh, so sad that the relationships have to continue after the divorce, another way to look at it is that a booming housing market facilitated divorce. Weird stuff.
ETA: H/T CR again, of course.