It's not quite the same as farmland being reclaimed literally between houses, but I remember going to Vegas in 2009 (I think, or late 2008). There was an in-pro

It's not quite the same as farmland being reclaimed literally between houses, but I remember going to Vegas in 2009 (I think, or late 2008). There was an in-progress casino that was dark; no work going on. I asked the desk at the hotel I was staying at what was going on. When the market crashed, the company went out of business. He said the workers literally laid their tools down in the middle of a shift, walked out and locked the gates. It was very, very strange, because the depth of the crash hadn't yet sunk in to my tiny pea-brain. That really drove home just how bad this was about to be. (funny but unrelated story from that same trip. We were there for a technical conference on research in K-12 administrator training and development, in the same hotel was a furry convention. Explaining to 75+ year olds what a furry was, and why that man had a fox tail was one of the best, and most surreal experiences of my life)