Here in New England, we've got legions of unemployed fisherman, loggers, construction workers as well as a thousand colleges and universities filled with a million kids racking up hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt with only the slightest hope of ever finding a job. Besides, they're still mostly teenagers and that's the Golden Age of Angst, right there.
I think I have an idea for the next big reality series, complete with ad placement in the title.