Changing times

Regarding new cars as bad value I cannot compare
prices. I shall change the currency at the present
rate of exchange, $2 to one ukp. In 1964 pipe tobacco
was under 50c an ounce. Now it is $7. I do not buy it
here. Gas was less than 50c a gallon and remember our
gallon is 25% bigger than yours. Now it is $9.50.
Nearly $8 of that is tax.In 52 my father bought his
house for $2000. In 84 I bought this one for $92,000.
It is now worth $900,000. In 64 a letter was 2c to
post. It is now 60c or more.In 70 my salary was $4k.
84 was 21k now 90k. Inflation was low in the 60s. it
reached 20% IIRC before Mrs Thatcher got a grip in 79.
It is now 3%.

My parents never travelled outside the UK. We can
leave not only the UK but Europe itself for vacations.
We have instant worldwide communications and
cosmopolitan friendships. The drugs available for
health-care are better in scope and still come via
socialised health-care free at the point of need. My
mother cooked British only. We eat the world. Our
community was mono-cultural. Now I am in danger of
being in an ethnic minority where I live in London.
The upside is I do not need to go to Africa again to
be a missionary. The nations have come to me.

My mother never worked outside the home. My wife
did part-time as my married daughter has to do though
she has a young baby. Both my sons are full time
fathers having married higher earning women.

Apart from the fact that we have lost national
sovereignty to the E.U. I am happy with the changes.

I am not happy that fewer marry and more divorce. Many
children are fatherless. Chastity is rare and
despised. Perversion is paraded as normality and
protected by law. There is more church growth and more
Bible believing Christians, but most of them in London
are in Black churches.

No-one is any longer worried about the bomb . They are
bothered by the spread of Islamic terror and
government spread rumour of environmental disasters
pending.

With Adoniram Judson, I believe the future is as
bright as the promises of God