Posted by paul on December 07, 2008 at 21:50:29 from (66.44.132.73):
In Reply to: OT The Economy posted by Benji Smith on December 07, 2008 at 12:42:27:
In this rural ag-based part of southern MN, things are going full bore, house builders are booked up solid, ag ecconomy is doing really well, land prices are about double anything I ever saw in my life, kinda hard to find any bargins on anything at all, lot of money out there to spend. The town I live by has 13,000 people 40 years ago, it has less than 14,000 population today. Many, many houses have gone up in that time, and this past 3 years several large housing divisions of 5-25 houses have gone up. An odd stable community that needs more houses for the same total population.....
We figure the end of 2009 it will catch up to us. Enough manufaturing here so layoffs will hit (overtime & temp workers are all about gone....), and the 2009 ag ecconomy looks like it will be upside down so could be pretty lean next year.
Right now, this moment, is about the best ecconomy I have ever seen. I know what is coming as we are not immune, we will get the same in 12 months or so, but today - my gosh, happy days!
Things were very grim here in the '80s when the rest of the country was in it's greed & luxury mode, so it's ok if we can get our time to enjoy too. Much of what the govt is doing to try to help the rest of the country, pretty much wrecks what is working for us - so, we know what is coming.....
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