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Would I have slipped through the cracks and become homeless? Those lyrics suddenly slid into focus for me. Here was a city that was the capital of capitalism, where the rich lived in the city during the week and then drove to their second house in the country at the weekend to relax. One thing that surprised me was how polite and friendly people were.

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They see you doubting which way to go coming out of the subway, and they ask if you need directions. I missed the trees. I missed the hills. I missed the slower pace of life. I missed walking to where I needed to go in the city. I missed the cultural centres. I missed the free bike system. I missed the kind Basque people, gracious and welcoming and quietly proud that a foreigner might come to their city. I missed wearing my hiking boots to go out for a drink and no one batting an eyelid.

Technology is both a blessing and a curse. It allows mass production in a way never before possible, yet on an individual level it deskills. Why learn how to make pastry if you can easily buy it from the supermarket? Why learn how to make anything at all then. Society is built upon exchange; we give our hard earned cash for goods and services. But what are the conditions of the workers? Does the company pay the workers a living wage?

Does the factory employ women and give them economic independence? Does the item require a raw material that people are murdered for?

Iraq and the war for oil, minerals sold by militants in the Congo for Iphones. Can I live without this thing? Can I make it myself? Can I buy locally? Money is power, and our choices as consumers affect the actions of big business. Both options are bad. Christmas is so stressful.

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We can make them too, and we can use recycled materials. Every time I make something, it makes me feel happy, satisfied in my own handiwork.

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