Posted on 04/15/2010 8:05:22 AM PDT by quesney
What are you seeing in your neck of the woods? Are business conditions getting better -- or worse -- for you and the people you know? Any concrete details? And what are you expecting over the next year?
nope
and the housing market here in tucson arizona is bad and getting worse.
I was at open houses last weekend- even the real estate agents are admitting I could name my own proce for almost anything I wanted to buy
Where I live, the business of collecting taxes is phenomenally successful and growing at all levels, federal, state and local.
Everything else is shrinking.
“We’re you live”—do you mean “where” here? Confusing question.
Public educashun.
Ummmm...no. There are helped wanted signs here and there, but not a recovery. Many houses for sale.
....15% unemployment here in the mountains of n.w. North Carolina....textiles are gone...furniture factories gone...lumber mills gone...vacation homes real estate market at a standstill....what’s left is great natural beauty...but you’ve got to have money to get by.
IBM, my former employer, is hiring and I have had a former co-worker ask me to come back in an e-mail exchange we had. They seem to be doing well. I do think we may be seeing a cyclical recovery. The question is how sustainable it will be given all the spending and taxing that may be on the horizon if we do not put things in reverse soon.
Lots of gardening going on around here. People who usually rely on the grocery store are trying their hand in the dirt.
No recovery or anything even resembling a recovery here in MA. Real Estate values still heading down. I’ve been unemployed for almost 6 months now.
a good bit of new residential construction going on in my neighborhood.
Is this a real question? There are very few jobs for people who want to earn more than $8-$10 hr. There are NO housing construction jobs.
Posted this on a different thread yesterday:
The economy is on fire here in Delaware. Recent article in the Wilmington News Journal, discussing the announcement of Astrazeneca laying off 550 people: “The news is the latest in a series of painful layoff announcements hitting some of the state’s largest industries. In the last 12 months, nearly every major employment sector has lost jobs in Delaware.” On fire, I tell ya. Pure politics to believe otherwise.
Obvious typo - Moderator, please correct.
...addendum to my post #7.....local food bank has seen an all time high in the number of recipients...have asked for more help from the public.
Please fix the typo or spelling error in the title. Thanks.
“I was at open houses last weekend- even the real estate agents are admitting I could name my own proce for almost anything I wanted to buy”
How low can you go for a 3-bedroom in a good neighborhood with decent schools?
The only “greenshoots” are in the employment of government Census workers.
We are lucky that we have Gov Motor employees moving here from other closed plants, so our housing industry has been helped. The commercial sector is quite slow. If commercial real estate sales or leases, it is at rock bottom prices, and sellers are accepting. Unemployment is at 11%. Banks have tightened lending, especially on commercial loans and are very picky with residential.
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