DiznEeyore
<font color=navy>Donkey-Huggin' DVC Member<br><fon
- Joined
- May 1, 2000
So true.
We are also from MI. When we heard about the "recession" I was like, haven't we already been in a recession for the last 7 years. So the recent news was no biggie for us. In fact, I think the bigger deal the rest of the nation make of it the worse it will be.
See, that's us, too.
Living in Michigan, it's almost like we're used to the layoffs, price hikes, empty houses with foreclosure notices on windows (I swear there are more every time I drive through the neighborhood), etc. So maybe we're not as worried about the potential for a recession because it's not anything different than what we've been dealing with.
Also, on a personal front, when dh was laid off 3 years ago, he was in IT, and it was his third or fourth layoff since we'd been together. Now he teaches college, so we don't worry about layoffs like we did before. And our finances are better than they ever have been, thank God. We're still tight due to personal choices like having ds in private school, but it's not like we're living on the $24K that we survived on in 2005 when he got laid off!