Ghost towns forming in California

[TwixVoy]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viCljYVnyDg

Interestion report. By FOX news, but local station not the national BS.

[YOY]

1. Still slanted and tainted with fear.

Selective imagery and pseudoclever wording.

Still Fox.

[bos1]

3. Yes, no info given on squatters rights, that squatters might help.

[underpants]

2. Skateboarders are loving the empty swimming pools

crime isn't surprising in empty neighborhoods-that is why community development causes are fighting against the tide.

[bos1]

4. cool article on squatting, USA

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/us/10squatter.html

[Retrograde]

5. California is dotted with ghost towns

the old mining areas are full of settlements that used to be booming towns back when the local mines were running that now have a handful of people - or none. Why shouldn't the new gold rush be the same?

One overlooked side effect: a lot of the recent growth was in prime agricultural areas in the Central Valley (and a couple decades before that in Silicon Valley - I remember when there were still farms and orchards here) and it's going to take a long time for the land to go back to any sort of shape for that - if it ever does.