mortgage crisis

GLUTTONY: the insurmountable desire to consume more than one needs.

In the recent weeks, after losing a roomate to an internship, I have been faced with a tough decision: where to live. As a 25 year old single female living in North Jersey, there arent many feasible options. My full time job for a non profit gives me a meager salary with which to support myself, much less live luxuriously. Rent was doable for my 2 roomates and I.

For quite a while now the evening news has had a bit of a "Groundhog's Day" feel to it. Talk of the falling dollar and pictures of housing areas with "foreclosed" signs on many of the homes and a makeshift market in the lawn so that former home-owners can gather enough money for their next roof or to make next months credit card payment.