I wanted to write about the recession that changed my life more than any other one to date, but discussing that time would give people too close of a fix on my age. Suffice it to say that the commercial and industrial buildings that were boarded up in the town where I went to high school stayed boarded up for around twenty years, so jobs in that part of #SoCal were scarce, but rents continued to rise. Eventually, almost everyone I knew had to leave the area.