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Strategies & Market Trends : The Residential Real Estate Crash Index

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From: kikogrey12/10/2010 2:14:26 PM
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After completing several long road trips this year, I'm more than ever convinced that this country is in the crapper. Large metropolitan cities and vast, vast spaces of nothingness or horrible depressed tiny outposts that can hardly be called 'towns.'

Just came back last night from a quick turnaround from Fresno to Orange County, about a 5-6 hour drive. Can you believe in this day in age, a city of over a half a million and the 5th largest in the state can pretty much only be reached by automobile? Just a tiny puddle jumper airport and no high speed rail. It's really embarrassing when Americans think this is the world's greatest country--driving across it it feels like a few major cities strung together by tiny $hitholes.

All the money pissed away on those TBTF, Iraq and Afghanistan could have been used to rebuild or build a decent infrastructure in this country. If high speed rail connected California's central valley with San Francisco and Los Angeles just think what that could do to revitalize the economy. Why is it cheaper to produce goods in China and send them here by boat than to make use of the vast wasteland in central California? Just some thoughts . .
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