More reflections on the election aftermath.

Versus 2016, the results of this election are a lot more tolerable.

It's not only because in some ways we've been here before and we have some inkling of what things could be like and we know how we made it through -- something that the one (lesbian) sister of my one former assisted living client with (disabilities) observed -- but it's also because I'm in a lot more stable day-to-day environment.

Back in the city that I used to live in, a lot of affordability and a lot of paths to economic advancement got lost in the wake of the 2009 economic crisis, only the permanency of that loss didn't get realized right away...  It was like my one old (skeptical) (Mexican) coworker said, after 2009, you kept waiting for things to get better, and they would a bit, but then they'd worsen in other places, and then they'd get better in some ways, but get worse in others, and it was like that over and over and over, and you never really went back to the way things were. So, you were trapped in this cycle of dashed hope, without exactly realizing what that was, and always in fear that things would slide again, but always in the hope that just maybe just maybe, things could re-stabilize back in the old affordability, if somehow the right things would just happen.

Now that I'm back in a very affordable place to live where I can save money without thinking -- and that not even working full-time! -- that instability of daily life has largely been removed. Sure, expenses may be creeping up a little, and the homelessness problem around town is gradually getting worse, but those problems are just at much lower levels, and they really don't impinge on your everyday life so much. At worst, it's something to be a bit aware of, but it's nothing in-your-face and anxiety-provoking.