ORIGINAL: RoswellGrey

I gotta agree with the idea that the "recession" has been blown way out of proportion. I've lived through numerous recessions, and this just doesn't feel like a recession. In San Antonio, at least, stores are always packed. You don't see more people than usual lined up a free-food places. Tourists keep flocking here. Maybe it's just this city (which admittedly doesn't have a large manufacturing sector and always is one of America's poorest cities), but things here right now don't seem anywhere near as bad as, say, after 9-11.