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Well if this doesn't at least tie CouponJack for the biggest downer post in this thread....
Brian, The end of the world will be upon us when Coupon Jack announces that because of the big price run-ups of houses in Union County, he's moving back to NJ and is looking at all of the cheap houses with low taxes, in Ridgewood, Saddle River or Colts Neck (strictly for a bigger backyard)! Either the World will be ending.... or Hell will have frozen over!
Location: Some got six month some got one solid. But me and my buddies all got lifetime here
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Brian, The end of the world will be upon us when Coupon Jack announces that because of the big price run-ups of houses in Union County, he's moving back to NJ and is looking at all of the cheap houses with low taxes, in Ridgewood, Saddle River or Colts Neck (strictly for a bigger backyard)! Either the World will be ending.... or Hell will have frozen over!
Hell will truly have frozen over, thawed, and refreeze when Ridgewood, Saddle River or Colts neck suddenly become affordable.
Hell will truly have frozen over, thawed, and refreeze when Ridgewood, Saddle River or Colts neck suddenly become affordable.
Well, there you have it! Hell is going to freeze over in Dec of 2012 - so that is when NJ will become affordable!!!
As far as our job rebounds, I believe we will see more jobs opening in 2011 . . . but I don't know that this city will EVER get back a lot of the white collar jobs it has lost.
For example, we have seen some very large law firms either shut down their Charlotte offices or scale back dramatically . . . same w/ financial services (not just bank related) . . . and then there are the architectural and engineering firms, many of wh/ have closed branches/offices here or are down to skeletal staff . . .Charlotte five years down the road is simply NOT going to be Charlotte as it was in 2006.
Hopefully, other corporations will decide to move here (or open offices here) but since the slow down is nationwide (well, international, really) . . . I see all this unfolding in a very slow manner - not any sort of sudden boom wh/ brings back the 32,000 jobs we lost last year (and who knows how many we have lost this year).
Not sure if that
s such a bad thing Ani...as long as those gaps are filled with other jobs: manufacturing, light-blue and blue collar jobs. Having so many "professional" jobs can make us top-heavy. One of Charlotte's best features is it's resiliency due to diversity. I know some folks thing we're screwed with the unemployment rate such as it is right now, but go visit some other comparable metro regions. Orlando and Denver are the two I've been to recently and we're MUCH better off than them. Some statistics may disagree, but my eyes tell me the truth. When places just start looking like crap, you know there's bad stuff happening. Orlando makes me both sad and sick. Unhappy people, tons of stalled construction projects, just an overall downer all around. Denver was much the same way. TONS of homeless people and just a general "blah" in the air (until you get up into the mountains, of course). I won't even use the trump cards of the extreme cities like Detroit.
Anyways...I digress...
I'm saddened to see people who wore those white collars lose a job and have to leave an area they like. On the other hand, I'll be the first in line to turn the lemons into (spiked) lemonade and get through this thing.
Now the first step will be landing a major manufacturing newcomer...anyone know of one? Oh yeah! Those police cars! Let's see if they want to come here! Oh wait...Bev already screwed that for us.
Not sure if that
s such a bad thing Ani...as long as those gaps are filled with other jobs: manufacturing, light-blue and blue collar jobs. Having so many "professional" jobs can make us top-heavy. One of Charlotte's best features is it's resiliency due to diversity. I know some folks thing we're screwed with the unemployment rate such as it is right now, but go visit some other comparable metro regions. Orlando and Denver are the two I've been to recently and we're MUCH better off than them. Some statistics may disagree, but my eyes tell me the truth. When places just start looking like crap, you know there's bad stuff happening. Orlando makes me both sad and sick. Unhappy people, tons of stalled construction projects, just an overall downer all around. Denver was much the same way. TONS of homeless people and just a general "blah" in the air (until you get up into the mountains, of course). I won't even use the trump cards of the extreme cities like Detroit.
Anyways...I digress...
I'm saddened to see people who wore those white collars lose a job and have to leave an area they like. On the other hand, I'll be the first in line to turn the lemons into (spiked) lemonade and get through this thing.
Now the first step will be landing a major manufacturing newcomer...anyone know of one? Oh yeah! Those police cars! Let's see if they want to come here! Oh wait...Bev already screwed that for us.
LOL!! Yep, thank our Guv . . .
Jack - call me a dreamer but I still want to re-create our textile industry here.
I am told the equipment is sold . . . but I still dream of textile factories.
My second dream is to establish a kudzu ethanol plant . . .
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