However; when the market crashed, we relocated to southern California where the market rebounds faster.

BTW - we used to offer new-construction homes exclusively, but when the housing market "crashed", builders stopped building and new-construction dried up overnight.

As you well may or may not know, that area was hot as it is now in the 80s then crashed shortly thereafter.

At one point I was able to quite the j.o.b. and go full-time, but that ended when the market crashed.

She successfully predicted the crash and she was saying 6 months ago that municipalities are in deep trouble - hello Detroit.Now she is predicting that it's going to be "neighbor vs. neighbor.

I actually sold a business I had, 40,000 a year coming in for four years, so I had time to learn without worrying too much about survival.Or so I thought, four years later I crashed and lost everything.

However, since the crash, that landscape has changed.

My FICO crashed from 800 when we hit a rough patch a couple years back.

We relocated to a new area, having come from a smaller city where we were very well established, but was hit extremely hard by the crash.

@JonK We relocated to Orange County CA from an area that was highly dependent on the construction industry, and when the market crashed unemployment etc. skyrocketed to around 18%.