I think there’s still hope. When I was there a couple of years ago, I had to schedule a cab two hours earlier than I needed to leave for my flight home because the others were already taken for kids getting a ride to school. I thought it was rather (sad) and funny because the schools weren’t all that far away. I’d passed them earlier in the week when my husband and I took strolls around the neighborhood. What a waste of money and resources. However, I still saw tons of people out and about on a regular basis. Young and old, singles and couples...people were pretty much getting where they needed to be on foot at all hours of the day. Now my husband lives with me in America and his biggest complaint so far is that he never sees people on the sidewalks, even in the downtown area. He always says it looks like “The Walking Dead” out here, and he’s absolutely right. I think England still has some hope, but America is its near future if it’s not careful.