Maintaining our advantage..

We knew when we came here that the hardest bit would be sorting out stuff in the UK. sabbaticals, banks, renting the house, money, insurance, cards (and the current fiasco with my bank and the letter agent prove this). And we knew that when we landed - even in the middle of the night in some strange city - the difficult bit would be over..

So why is that? 

I think its maintenance, not even keeping up with, but just the necesary lives we've built in order to keep things in order. Yes the losses are not as big here if we get robbed or scammed or lose out on something, but the mental energy it takes just to keep the cart on the rails - that can't be worth doing. 

So what if we stop doing it? We would instantly lose the advantage over people who don't do it. people who aren't in the know, and since our society is built on competition (even walking let alone driving down a busy street we would be able to go quicker - there is a facebook group called "i want to punch people who walk slowly") then we have to maintain it. And maintaining - using huge energies treading water - that's what i have a problem with and maybe one of the reasons our cities are violent, citys fat, people unhappy. Cheery hey?