Friday, November 03, 2006

Real estate is slowing down, slowing down, slowing down

You may have heard that the real-estate market has slowed. Forbes.com lets us know where it's really bad.

http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/10/housing-bubble-metros-life-re-cx_tvr_1011restate.html

Among the places cited is the Providence, RI, Fall River, Mass., area. I visited Fall River once, mainly because my birthday falls on the same date that Lizzy Borden's parents were murdered. There is a certain melancholy to the town that I frankly find intriguing. I think it would make a good setting for a novel, in a William Kennedy, "Ironweed" kind of way.

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