Everyone is bitching about so many programs crashing down and blaming everything on tubes and free porn while ignore the most obvious facts - That we are in a recession and so few have money to spend on porn. No one is buying porn while worrying about making their next house payment or if they'll have a job in the morning.
I live in Lincoln, California, just north of Sacramento. Ten years ago it was a small sleepy town off of a freeway off of a much larger freeway. Lincoln had a population of eleven thousand people. Once someone figured out there was a small cute town with a one hundred year old main street off of a freeway of the main freeway, they decided to build houses here. From 2000 to 2006 the town had a 238% increase in population, including myself when I moved back to California to work for ICS. The city loved the rapid growth; In 2006 we were named the All-America City and had big celebration. The developers had to build new fire stations, schools, parks, upgrades to most of the roads, and so forth. Bigger businesses moved in, Target, and so forth. All of the houses had new loans on them, and most of those new loans defaulted.
On my street three are exactly twenty houses. About a year ago we counted all of the empty once, and ten of them were empty with five more having for sale signs on them. During my morning run I took my camera and took some pictures. I'll follow up over the next few days of the town itself, and show you how sad it really is.
Here's my street....
This is the house across the street from me. It's now been vacant for two years or so. Currently the bank has had workers in it re-painting and fixing the holes in the walls. The back of the house, which you can see from the main street, has a gutter that's falling off. Note the dead lawn.
