Apt wanted

Signs like this appear in the hallways in Haredi neighborhoods in Israel all the time. 

Translation:

Dear Neighbors

On the occasion of our family celebration

We seek apartments for couples to sleep

For the last Shabbos of summer break

Parshas Re'eh

We will be happy for your assistance.

Thank you

With good news and happiness

Good Shabbos

Family ______

What's going on here is that the living spaces are so small in Israel that there's no space to house guests. This is not only a problem for hachnasas orchim but even for having adult children visit for Shabbos. And if you are having a simcha, like a bar mitzvah, forget about it. Then you really are in trouble.

The aliyniks have a standard manipulative tool which is to claim that anybody who doesn't move to Israel resists only because he can't give up his materialism. It's obviously a ridiculous charge. Frum Jews all over Brooklyn, Lakewood, Monsey, and Monroe struggle to pay tuition and live simple lives. People who make aliyah tend to be more affluent so they assume everyone is like them. Would you call spending Shabbos with family materialism? I'd call it a basic need. Children need social interaction with grandparents and cousins, need to see somebody other than their brothers and sisters. Shabbos becomes 25 hours of boredom when you are cooped up in the same room week after week with the same people. 

Here spending Shabbos with any portion of the rest of klal Yisroel is a major production.

Rabbi Hershel Schachter who pushes everyone to move to Israel even though he lives in Manhattan, NY regularly visits his children for Shabbos. He comes to Passaic often and stays with a daughter in her house. I imagine that he goes to Woodmere to stay with his son who is well paid as the Rav of the Young Israel of Woodmere and no doubt lives in a nice house. And so his grandchildren get to spend time with their grandparents. I assume that he is driven there. He doesn't have to pile his suitcases onto buses as we do in Israel and spend an hour and a half making stops along the route to get to anywhere. Sometimes, you have to take a second bus as you do if you visit Kiryat Sefer.

The housing situation in Israel is a horror. $800,000 for a tiny apartment where the family is squashed into tiny bedrooms and a single all purpose shared room. I talk about this here often because it's a major issue. Here's your all purpose room:

That's your living room/dining room/playroom/den. 

Here's your all purpose room in a 4-bedroom $957,818 apartment:

Rabbi Schachter says that the golus over and Israel is a wonderful place to live. It has all the modern inventions and conveniences he says.

I would call living space to be one of the most important modern conveniences. Israel doesn't offer that. 

And this means that you are separated from family. It also means that even neighbors don't get together because the second you walk into an apartment you have invaded their living space. If women visit, the men have to retreat to tiny bedrooms or leave the house. That happened to me last night. If men visit, the women do the same. Years ago, I attended a siyum at a neighbor's house and the women all huddled in the tiny kitchen while the men sat squashed in the tiny living room. It was so uncomfortable that it didn't last long and it hasn't happened since. It means there's no place to sit because there's only one couch as shown in the picture above.

The line is that when you move to Israel you are coming home to family. But the truth is that you can't even see your own family.

The aliyah pushers don't tell you this, just like they don't tell you about the subpar health care in Israel, because like Sabbatians they are so caught up in their false messianism that they don't see reality. They are living in a dream whose maintenance requires your participation. If your religious life is built on being a Belzer Chassid, you don't need all Jews to be Belzer Chassidim. You be it. But those whose religious life is built around the Medinah and the redemption that they claim it indicates, need all Jews to join in with them. What kind of national redemption is it if most Jews stay in chutz? So they hype you up with misrepresentation about the chiyuv of yishuv ha-haaretz, they deceive you about life in Israel, and they fill you with unwarranted guilt.

And you post signs seeking rooms where your guests can stay for Shabbos. And usually you can't find any.