[mikefertynnz]

What is happening in Cuba is now happening in the US where you cannot afford two houses in a divorce so that they stay in the same house.....one rule......you stay in your room and I'll stay in mine.

And rent? if they cannot affor $1,200 when buying a house then how can they afford $900.00 to rent one?

Two and three families in the same house?........is happening now.
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Recession reshapes life in USA.

By Haya El NasserPosted 9/21/2011 10:50:37 PM

The dismal economy is having a profound effect on the American way of life, from delaying marriage and divorce to reducing car ownership and private school enrollment, according to new Census data.

The World's Financial System Is Crumbling. Here's The Worst-Case.

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Lingering bad times may alter expectations and lifestyles for years to come, some demographers say.

"It's going to have a long-term impact and to say it's going to end is optimistic," says Cheryl Russell, former editor in chief of American Demographics, now editorial director of New Strategist Publications, publisher of reference tools. "I'm more pessimistic that this is the new normal."

The Census Bureau's 2010 American Community Survey sent detailed annual questionnaires to 4.4 million people and was conducted separately from the 2010 Census.

What could become the new normal:

•Marrying later. The median age of first marriage has crept up to 28.7 for men and 26.7 for women, up from 27.5 and 25.9 respectively in 2006.

At the same time, fewer people are taking a trip to the altar, period. If the marriage rate had stayed the same as in 2006, there would have been about 4 million more married people in 2010.

•Fewer babies. There were 200,000 fewer births to women ages 20 to 34 in 2010 than just two years before even though the number of women in this prime age for having children grew by more than 1 million, according to Kenneth Johnson, demographer at the University of New Hampshire's Carsey Institute.

"The recession is the likely cause," Johnson says. "Economic recessions often reduce fertility because women delay … in uncertain times."

•Breaking up is harder to do. Divorces, which have been sliding for 25 years as people wait longer or choose to live together before tying the knot, continue to drop. There were about 65,000 fewer divorces in 2010 than in 2008, a 7% drop.

"Part of that is the long-term trend, but I'm convinced that some couples are delaying divorce because they can't afford to set up separate houses," says Stephanie Coontz, co-chair of the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan association of family researchers.

•Crowded living. After decades of steady increases, the share of solo households has stayed flat at just above 27% since 2006.

Unemployment and foreclosures are forcing more people to double up. Households that shared their homes with "other relatives" climbed from 6.7% in 2006 to 7.2% in 2010. Those sharing space with non-relatives have increased, too: 5.8% from 5.4%.

•Nobody's home. The home vacancy rate, a direct consequence of the housing collapse and record foreclosures, rose again in 2010 to 13.1% compared with 12.6% in 2009 and 11.6% in 2006.

•Driving solo. When people are not working, they don't carpool. The share of people ages 16 to 64 who worked dropped significantly in all but one of the 50 largest metropolitan areas (New Orleans). That has helped push the share of people driving to work alone from 76% in 2006 to 76.6% in 2010. Ride-sharing is down a full percentage point to 9.7%.

The share of households without a car rose again to 9.1% vs. 8.8% in 2006. Households with two or more cars dropped from 58% to 57.1%.

•Going public. Private school enrollment is declining from 13.6% in 2006 to 12.8%.

"The scary thing is that we're seeing the impact unfold in the younger age groups," Russell says. "Many college graduates are employed in jobs paying close to minimum wage with no benefits. These people are not going to be buying houses and they're certainly postponing marriage. … We're just in the middle of a big transition."

•More renters find housing unaffordable

http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedit...sus22_ST_U.htm

[Agrisalia]

But yet flights to Cuba from the U.S. have seen a 10000% increase this year alone.



U.S. Airlines Increase Commercial Flights to Cuba: How You Can Reserve a Spot

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/2448...ights-cuba.htm

[XGoFivk7]

Americanos have been going to Cuba sinse for ever........the only different is that they no longer will have to go to a third country on their way to Cuba, third country being Mexico, Canada or the Bahamas.

I for one went six times by way of Tijuana, and once from Miami, the only reason for so many planes going now from the US is for profit and nothing more.

[baritkello]

Do they have a big baseball stadium down there for the Yankees to come visit?

[CaseyFronczek]

teevee and movies shape life in Amerika.

[OmqMZtkv]

I heard just yesterday that Cubans can purchase real estate for the first time. Lots of red tape though and I imagine it's purpose is for foreign investment.

[Breilopmil]

Do they have a big baseball stadium down there for the Yankees to come visit?

What for? all the Cuban players have defected to the US........

Where TV was a dream of America it has now become a night mare because they know how bad is getting to be by the news from those now in the US.

[priordine]

I heard just yesterday that Cubans can purchase real estate for the first time. Lots of red tape though and I imagine it's purpose is for foreign investment.

Complete readjustment coming soon.

Get the last proceeds while you can...

[pIp83Uns]

do people surf or bodysurf (in the ocean) much in Cuba ?

got a great location. must get some good waves.

[h4z1XBI7]

What for? all the Cuban players have defected to the US........

Probably one of the better reasons to be granted a political refugee status to the US... The power that be refuses to build big ass baseball stadiums. Oh you are oppressed, come to the land of the (free) big ass baseball stadiums...

[DrJonson]

What is happening in Cuba is now happening in the US where you cannot afford two houses in a divorce so that they stay in the same house.....one rule......you stay in your room and I'll stay in mine.

And rent? if they cannot affor $1,200 when buying a house then how can they afford $900.00 to rent one?

Two and three families in the same house?........is happening now.

Thanks for the article.

I think we'll see more families becoming more inter-dependent and not only sharing houses, but other necessities, like vehicles, etc.

We are headed for a different era.

Perhaps individuals and families will return to more self-reliance.

[giftbestcom]

Only those living in Cuba can buy houses but many Cuban-Americans do sent money to relatives living there for them to buy a house..............that's the way that it should be otherwise the coutry (sooner or later) would belong to foreigners, like in the US where if you buy a $250,000 house a visa comes with the purchase.

That was one reason as to why I lost my farm in Agentina, the freaking lawyer-real state agent forgot to file this document.

First post of the day...........good morning to one and all.

PS: Indian summer here, the sun is bright and is warm.

[dahlilaninfo]

Only those living in Cuba can buy houses but many Cuban-Americans do sent money to relatives living there for them to buy a house..............that's the way that it should be otherwise the coutry (sooner or later) would belong to foreigners, like in the US where if you buy a $250,000 house a visa comes with the purchase.

If they're sending U.S. dollars there, it soon will belong to the U.S.

Same way U.S. belongs to China with the products.

[disappointment2]

As you should know by now the dollar is no longer any good in Cuba and it has to be exchanged for pesos at a rate of 0.85 cengtavos to one dollar........however my question is, what happens to those dollars?........is the Cuban government making a profit of 15% from those sending money to Cuba?.

[Beedcardabeme]

The recession is the likely cause," Johnson says. "Economic recessions often reduce fertility because women delay … in uncertain times." •



Cleary the person who wrote this study has never to been to a Hospital maternity ward in a border State6

[D6Ri5u13]

As you should know by now the dollar is no longer any good in Cuba and it has to be exchanged for pesos at a rate of 0.85 cengtavos to one dollar........however my question is, what happens to those dollars?........is the Cuban government making a profit of 15% from those sending money to Cuba?.

They use them to buy oil, and cheap crap from China like everyone else, Or to buy their own currency back of the street.

So yeah they lose like everyone else.