How is the economy in your area ?

uncle Alan

uncle Alan

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Our unemployment rate is at 15.5 % and no better prospects in sight . Patsy's son & family are headed to Austin Texas. His live in's family is there and word is plenty of jobs there.
Brian,Pat's son has been in pest control,can operate any heavy equipment and was a gang supervisor on several large demolition jobs in Orlando,Jacksonville & Daytona.

We have supported them for over 18 months until public assistance could be gotten. There were hundreds ahead of them therefore the bureaucratic snafu.
We have spent over $30,00 on them & are giving them over $ 2,500 to get out of Dodge.

Surely hope none of you have had this terrible misfortune befall you or family.

Uncle Alan
 
Sorry to hear about your situation. Around here construction and related jobs seem hardest hit.
 
Austin is a very expensive city for Texas. I seriously doubt that jobs there are any better than here: nonexistent.
 
joe-bob said:
Austin is a very expensive city for Texas. I seriously doubt that jobs there are any better than here: nonexistent.
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We were judging the economy on rental of a sturdy 3 bed room home at $650.00 a month. Binder down. Will give $2,500 for lights, water etc. Brian is eager to get his manhood back.

Uncle Alan
 
So far 2 members and their familys have had to use our guest house due to layoffs and low wages.
I think the economy is worse than the Politico's are willing to admit.
 
The paper mills and sawmill are shut down, now the government is concidering to just burn the same wood to make electricity instead of creating value added products with it.

Up until recently, the unemployment office was the busiest place going, but its since dried up too now that people have used up their bennefits. Food banks are busy, but their shelve are pretty bare.

Many younger people have left the area to work in the oil sands in Aberta.

I count my blessings that I am retired with a pension.
 
I just went to a two day meeting to learn how to maximize the ability to earn a living in my profession. Why you ask? Because my practice is spiraling into the toilet. The economy sucks here too. Way too many clients are unemployed, people just aren't bringing in and taking care of their animals when times are tough. The guy running the meeting had the nerve to say that the Veterinary profession is "recession-proof". I got news for him... he's full of crap. Where's all the "HOPE AND CHANGE"? Certainly hasn't trickled down to me. :grumpy::mad::thumbdn:
 
I work in Weather-based irrigation controller technology, and I am almost ashamed to admit that I am busy right now. County of Los Angeles and other city muni's have some money to spend on water conservation initiatives, so we are holding our own. If you are in a business that provides LEED certification points to properties, you may be busy enough to keep the lights on. Green initiatives, socialized energy conservation agendas (hate to call it that, but it may be where it is headed) is where any money is being spent. Some of it is up and up because it reduces operational costs, so the payback is tangible and quantifiable.
 
Our unemployment rate is over 14%. We have no industry here to speak of. This use to be a blue collar town where people worked in the mills or in logging.
Those days are gone... It is basically a tourist / ski destination and because of that, a lot of Californians have moved here in the last 15-20 years. They sold their crappy houses down there for millions and came up here and bought up a lot of real estate, driving the prices up so far out of reach, most working people that have lived here for years, were priced right out of owning a home...

I consider myself very lucky to have a good job. Great benefits and probably one of the highest paying jobs in the area. There are days that I don't want to do it anymore, but it doesn't take long to make myself stop and think about it.
If I didn't have this job, I would be in the same boat as a lot of people all around the country, because there isn't anything else here to do
 
If you think it's bad now wait till Obamacare takes effect !! Our economy will totally collapse.
 
Obama's spend, spend, spend, and forced down the throat health insurance is coming at the worst possible time. We will have to watch this one closely, as this present recession is probably just the tip of the ice burg.

When America catches a cold we get the sniffles here north of the boarder.

Now when America catches Pneumonia.... Yikes!
 
My father has 2 degrees and certifications coming out the wazoo. He has taught part time at a community college for years to bring in a little extra money to help pay for us kids to get though school. He was let go from his full time job in November 2008.

After working 13 years for the same company, has been unemployed for 16 months. It is incredible to me. My father and I have a similar work ethic. Whenever an employer says "It is easy to find a job, but impossible to find a good employee." I think of the way we like to work.
Now all the jobs seem to have dried up. My father used to go to job fairs and it seems that there were hundreds of booths and thousands of people, but nobody was hiring.
And this is in Dallas, Tx Where we have supposedly done really well compared to the majority of the US. I am shocked.

I have had the past week off on Vacation, and my Father has been over at my house the majority of the time helping me finish a remodeling job I started in November. I think he is doing good, but you would think the people in power would worry more about the little guys at the bottom.

Every male member of my family is a veteran, and I am to the point where for the first time in my life I am truly disappointed with our government.
 
Things in the SF Bay Area are bad and set to get worse very soon.

The NUMMI auto assembly plant in Fremont is set to close in April
with the loss of something like 4700 jobs just at the plant. The
ripple effect is going to impact WAY more than that, with nationwide
consequences. A lot of workers will be getting severence pay which
reportedly ranges from the high 20's up till around 80k.

If jobs were tight before, just wait. I would like my last glimpse
of Kali to be in the rear view mirror.
 
In addition to the widespread unemployment in the area, Sacramento has suffered from the fact that the State has imposed "furloughs" on many offices, resulting in a 10% cut in pay for a good chunk of the local population. This ofcourse causes a ripple through the entire community.

I basically work in the tourism industry in San Francisco, and that is effected by economic problems anywhere in the world. Add to that cutbacks in the Arts and the film and commercial industry, and times are tough for Stagehands.
 
Our end of the Globe. The Southern African Economy is moving from bad to appalling. South Africa has had a honeymoon gearing to the World Cup Soccer and the contracts are over the hang over is hitting earlier than was expected. Budgets are blown and credit maxed for the country.....

Botswana, hah, Botswana was a very fiscally conservative country. Kept within budgets, banked savings for a rainy day. The diamond market is a black hole and the reserves have been raped by banking internationally. However they don't spend more than they earn so we have to sit out some pretty hard times. Bureacracy is very slow and cautious so on a project I am finally getting the land on 3/4 sponsors are bankrupt.

Watching Obama very closely and we are looking at a worsening period for another year.
 
Here in the interior of Alaska we are holding or own. The Tanana Valley has a population of around 100,000. With a Air Force base a Army post and a university we have over 50% of the population working for the government in one form or another.
As an professional artist I have had down size and find new markets.
I am making the same amount of money as before but it is not going as far.
 
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