At least, there are a lot of places here for people to work, unlike many of the very small towns around here, where you have to wonder how people survive.
I'm reminded of an old Lou Reed album...
Rest awhile. Set a spell.
Just make yourself at home.
Lubbock has many warehouses.
I'm not knocking this. People need jobs and only a very small number of jobs are ever going to be elite, ivory tower things, purely intellectual, and free from any taint of sweat or danger or compromise.We found this transformer farm a few weeks ago. Try to live without hardware like this. Try to sanitize the manufacturing process. Try to beautify a transformer. Good luck with that
Power for the people, yes.
When I finish this batch of abandoned homes I'll switch for a while to Industry On Parade. We found a place bristling with security cameras, ribbon wire, and its own water tower for fire suppression. Makes you wonder what might be stored there. My guess, and it's only a guess, is enough ammonium nitrate to blow half of Lubbock sky high. Good luck finding out for sure.
Lubbock has a lot of abandoned homes. Lubbock has a substantial homeless population. But there is no effective mechanism in place to patch up those homes and put homeless people into them. Some local churches are doing what they can, however. And there are Habitat homes in various places. The need is great.
These structures probably can't be salvaged...
Although if oil prices keep plunging Midland and Odessa will be FULL of abandoned homes. Some of Lubbock's most ritzy and exclusive neighborhoods, where the houses are more like castles, will probably be vacant and decaying. Oil money comes and oil money goes. And I can't say that I have any sympathy whatsoever for oil business types.
My wife and I looked yesterday at a house for lease that was in such awful shape, only crackheads or fratrats would consider living there. Somebody actually expected to make money out of that derelict! Where there is greed, there is hope. You've got to admire the ambitious dreams of aspiring slumlords. Probably, his daddy and his daddy before him were all slumlords. Tradition!
I'm reminded of an old Lou Reed album...
Rest awhile. Set a spell.
Just make yourself at home.
Lubbock has many warehouses. 
