Not to make lame economy or real estate metaphors, but I think there is a very circular and cyclic nature of things here. Inevitably, somewhere, something happens.

AS an antidote, I suggest reading some Skvorecky. I started his most recent novel, Ordinary Lives. If there was any man I could be, it would be him. He writes like no one else. I think you would be friends with Danny, so often the protagonist of his stories.