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GHOST_TOWNS

                                             July 6, 2013


    Walking through downtown              Walking through Pacific
    Oakland on a weekend night,           Heights on a weekend
    it often seems like a ghost           afternoon, it often seems
    town-- I get the sense that           like a ghost town-- there
    even the people who live              are some very impressive
    around there like to go               mansions up there, but you
    elsewhere.  There's a                 don't see any activity in
    temptation to run off to              the neighborhood.  The
    San Francisco every                   suspicion is that these are
    weekend, because there's so           all "second homes" of the
    much action over there.               super-rich, and they're not
                                          really used very often.



                There are two kinds of ghost towns...



                        OTHER_HAND


                                                             KRUGMANS_TURF

                                               A comment at Krugman's blog,
                                               on July 6, 2013 by a "jonrysh"
                                               of Oakland, CA:

                                                 "The larger a house or office,
                                                 the less likely its occupant
                                                 is to be in it."








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