Recently I had lots of trouble with the owner of the house I have been living in for about twenty years. He occured to be insolvent and didn't pay the bills for gas. Because it's a very old house, there are no individual connections for each flat, but only one for the whole building. So there was nothing I could do. I've been looking for a new home for some time now. But there are lots of competitors for small, affordable one person apartments because we have a lot of students in our town. There's a school for architecture here and a world famous musical academy.
So I had to stay in this old house for weeks without any real heating. Now some days ago the water supply broke down because of heavy frost. Fortunally I found a new home, finally. It's empty already, so I can move in right away. It's close to my old one, only 800m, that's half a mile. Some luck in the end :D, but it was last minute emergency.
This is a story from "rich" Germany, crisis everywhere.
My ISP will need some time to move my web connection so I will not be around often for the next weeks (?), but I'll be back :D