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[quote:Anonymous Coward 16026864:MV8yMDA5Nzg5XzMzNzg1MTMxXzcwMDdBRjQw] Always been poor always will be poor.. and as such we always get by, and this is the *cough* so called rich Southern part of England. LOL And by that I mean, most of the home bakers around here have a go at starting their own bakery, most home cooks have a go at starting their own cafe ect, so while business do go bust frequently there is always some one willing to give it a go. I guess it helps that we don't have any of the big named brand businesses to crowd everyone else out, and while we are poor it's nice not to live in one of those big business cloned towns where every thing looks, smells and feels the same *shudder* We get almost no government funding down here, which is probably why so many people have a go at starting and running their own businesses, and to be honest I don't think that is a bad thing really. So I honestly don't expect things to get worse, even in a crash, but then again I don't expect anything to get better either even in a speedy recovery. [/quote]
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There is a very large large Chinese restaurant where I go eat about once every month or two.
Up until a couple years ago, there was always a line. You had to wait to be seated because every table was taken.
Now it is less than half full.
I shop at a local Publix grocery store. It's the same there. They used to have 5 or 6 cashiers working in the evening. Now it's two or three.
The local dying Mall is much the same. It's been dying for years. Half the cars in the lot are employees's cars. If you walk around the mall, there is barely a customer in most of the stores.
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