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[Rob <becida AT comcast.net>]

At  3/3/2009 04:57 AM,Lynn Wigglesworth wrote:
> > That's interesting, Lynn.  The price of food in the supermarket here is
> > rising higher and higher--specials are few and unimpressive.  Financially,
> > things are tough here in Florida.  They're closing schools and laying off
> > teachers and administrators and custodians, and that's just to try to meet
> > this fiscal year's education shortfall.  It's the third such cut this year
> > for education.
> >
> I wonder what other people are seeing. I suspect that the places that had
> the biggest 'bubbles' are the ones doing the worst now.

Food prices have been going up out here for the last year or so (I 
usually notice the 10% jump) and the Seattle layoffs seem to be in 
the news every week. We are 100+ miles from Seattle and 20+ from the 
I-5 corridor so the job loss has not gotten here enough so I can see 
it walking down the street. We did get a letter from the credit union 
yesterday talking about strong cash reserves but a few real estate 
losses from folks who lost their jobs.
There are still a lot of houses for sale and the prices have not yet 
gone down much at all.



Rob

becida AT comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA