A lot of it is an issue of scale and niche. Lubbock has about 200,000 people here and there are a lot of little bitty communities scattered around. I'm in kind of a unique situation because practically everyone I know here is part of the university community in one way or another. We've lost a few businesses, but they're the business that everyone has lost, like Linens 'N Things and some sort of a toy store. I heard yesterday that a denim plant in Littlefield was going to lay off a shift. It's not like it doesn't exist, it's just that we're sort of... insulated?
We didn't have a lot of the issues that a lot of other places have had because the housing market has always been really reasonable here, so we didn't have the wave of foreclosures at the beginning of all of this.
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Date: 2009-01-15 05:01 pm (UTC)We didn't have a lot of the issues that a lot of other places have had because the housing market has always been really reasonable here, so we didn't have the wave of foreclosures at the beginning of all of this.