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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly
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I've been to those towns in AZ. The world would lose nothing if they went away.
I don't see any similar outcry about places like Jerome that went to shit when their mines disappeared. Of course, in those cases, the only people hurt were the mine workers.
Honestly the communities would probably improve if people had better paying jobs because they weren't competing against slave labor.
Thing is: There's nothing there
The only businesses I saw in those towns were a lunch counter, the prison, and a shop selling "souvenirs" made by prisoners. Without the prison, there goes 2/3 of your economy (well, probably a lot more than 2/3 unless you pull a serious lunch crowd). So now your town is just a lunch counter in the middle of the desert. If you're lucky, maybe there's a tourist attraction further down the highway bringing travelers who will keep your restaurant open.
Yeah, if it is just one or two businesses in the middle of nowhere without customers, it should fail.
That isn't a community.
.....I mean......how was the lunch? Good?