don't know if there is a good time for economic collapse, but this isn't really it for my family. A year later would have been fine.
Are you sure? A year later you'd probably be saying the same thing? XD
I guess it's kind of a given when you build an entirely unsustainable system and instead of making changes where changes need to be made you keep propping it up and hoping problems will somehow magically stop being problems if you pretend they aren't for long enough?
As of right this second we're really not happy about not being able to go out and all the group stuff having to be shut down because that was most of our homeschooling. Now we have to do "boring" homeschooling (well my kids and I find it exceedingly boring, not meaning to disparage it as it works really well for some).
Good thing is J finally gettng to work from home (something he's been angling at since the kids got old enough to understand that even though he's home he might not be available but a lot of the oldies in charge tend to firmly believe and will not be told otherwise that if you're not in the office then you can't possibly be working/nearly as productive) and as we knew from when he first thought about doing it, it really suits him :)
Probably, but then I wouldn't (hopefully) need to be renovating and getting materials .... hopefully.
The economic models and tools were built for a different time and didn't factor in the google's and amazon's of the world, nor the ability to move money and hide money from where it was earned. It is a broken system at best, a disaster at the moment.
There are pros to homeschooling - a lot of cons since - the kids are at home too :D
Working remotely for all things take some getting used to, especially if it wasn't the way or even possible before. I was travelling twice a month, now.... 0.
Good luck with developing the new normal. :)