What has happened in 13 house holds in one small road in a North London suburb may be taken as ypltying how evacuation has affected the middle classes "Two retired couples have let heir houses and moved out 100 miles or more.
One man has rejoined one of the services; his wife is living with his parents and the boy is at a public school.
One father and mother have remained behind as ARP. workers While the children have moved with the local private school.
One resident, with his wife and four children, has stayed at-home and erected a steel shelter.
professional man with a wife and two "children has been badly hit Rnaneially, and is wondering what is going to happen to him.
'A-retired couple are standing by for ARP. work Three childless couples are carry= ing on life as usual.
Two other families nave not changed their mode of life.
Tt is noteworthy that four out ight private cars owned in this road fre still In use in one of those neigh. ourhoods where families have ustally given up the car in favour of experiments with the bicycle.
One professional man ina West London suburb, with his wife and child by the sea, Is host to a neigh hour whose wife and family have also. eft him. This householder, ati excellent cook, claims to have made success of his new rule so far, but gather that the beds are made only when the "daty" woman ealls—twice weekly.
Economic problems such as_had never been envisaged are worrying many homes. The number of professional men whose incomes have disappeared or been ceriously'dimin ished is very high. They are often Immediately confronted with the pressing question how their substanial premiums on insurance policies and heavy school fees are to be met Various expedients have been employed, or tried out; the family house has been let furnished, the car laid and the family moved into a small Many hitherto well-to-do homes are now receiving paying guests. others are to be found odd assortments of unfamiliar faces.
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