[ex-Texan]

You are forgetting about all the banking, mortgage, home owner insurance, title insurance, legal and other jobs directly related to real estate. Also, because people used their homes like ATM machines to access cash, other jobs not directly related to housing includes: auto sales, auto insurance, retail sales, restaurant, newspaper advertising, credit card biz, and the list goes on and on.

[JasonC]

Um, by that standard, every job in the country is "related to" banking, because nobody pays for things via the barter system. It is just a silly comment.