Have you noticed any signs of the recession in your community?

I’m on furlough from work so yes I see a recession.

Yes, tough times are very evident where I live. Businesses are going under, people are losing their jobs, food pantries are getting less donations and overall, people are worried.
Where I work, about a dozen people were laid off in our division and I expect to see more.

Quite a few shops are closing down in my town. Lots of people I know have lost their jobs (including half my immediate family!) and I’m getting less and less work coming in for me. It sucks.

You used to not be able to get into a restaurant around this time of year. Now there’s no lines no waiting.

sure do here!!!. usually the town is full of people and they just seemed to not be there any more. there are businesses that are having to close that have just opened a few months ago. many are losing jobs and homes due to all of this. we need a really big prayer for every state. my hubby has been getting less and less hours for work. and he works for an appliance store and they just aren’t getting business in. they have had to close three stores so far that the company owned and if it keeps up like it is the whole chain is going to have to close.

I hear my (college level) art students talking about even higher levels of anxiety about what they are going to do after graduation. We are all worried about planned tuition increases. Our only art supply store in town just went out of business.

Nope. The mall is full, SUVs everywhere, county sales tax receipts were up 35% from last year, city’s were up 21%. It seems like places that grow stuff aren’t as susceptible as say the coasts. We have what was once and may still be the largest rice mill in the world, Riceland Foods. Gas prices fluctuate some, but it’s still around $1.35 a gallon right now.

You mean the foreclosures, the ghost-town shopping centers, the rising food prices? Yeah.

jholler
I live in one of the biggest agricultural valleys in the nation we supply the majority of fruits and vegetables to most of the united states and the county seat was the forerunner in tgemost home foreclosures in the united states. Hate to blow your theory out of the water so completely, but there must be other factors why the recession has yet to catch up with where you are living.

Hmm…maybe because what we grow is also exported?

No,jholler, I doubt that is the deciding factor since many crops where I live are also exported. I suspect it has more to do with the fact that the recession just hasn’t reared it’s ugly head in your neck if the woods yet. But, it won’t be long before it reaches you.

We’ll see, I guess, but a major windmill manufacturer (energy producing) is building a plant here, along with a company that supplies their turbine blades, expecting to bring 1000 new jobs within the first half of the year. Maybe we’ll just sit this one out.