How Has the Great Recession Impacted Your Choices?   Because I
work as a bankruptcy attorney I have the opportunity to meet a
lot of people here in Arizona who have taken a beating during
this recession. And while the recession technically ended a
while back, many, if not most are still going through some
financial difficulty or at least living at lower standard of
living than they were a few years back.  When I think back to
how thing were here in Arizona just a few years back, it all
seems like craziness. How many of us stood in lines on Saturday
morning to get a lottery number for the privilege of buying a
$500,000 tract home? How many large purchases were made with
cash pulled out of our houses?  In my bankruptcy consultations
by necessity people have to relive many of their poor financial
choices. I often hear of how going through financial
difficulties and even bankruptcy has changed their view of
things and how their financial decision making has changed
forever. Time will tell if these difficult econo