Whiles it’s no surprise that many of America’s cities are seeing a drop in their populations, a result of stagnant local economies, loss of jobs and fluctuations in the housing market, some of the locations that are seeing the highest real estate vacancy rates might come as a bit of a shock. When we hear about depleted metro areas, we think of Rustbelt cities like Detroit and Cleveland, not sought after locales like San Francisco and Miami, but this is the current reality as housing and rental pricing outpaces salaries.
Forbes recently compiled their list of “America’s Abandoned Cities,”  using the [...]

We saw this advertisement for a job posted on the doorway to a shop while walking through Soho on Friday and thought it appropriately summed up the current state of the economy. After all, in times like these who can be worried about a little thing like commitment from either interested party?

With the number of World of Warcraft players estimated at more than 11 million worldwide, the internet game is a bona fide sensation that can no longer be said to simply cater to a small hardcore fan base.  As its popularity continues to grow, we’re seeing this online phenomenon spilling over into real world. There are enterprising gamers who sell their hard fought virtual loot on sites like eBay, dating sites that cater to the game’s far flung community and even a WoW-themed restaurant that opened recently in China, but the NY Times points us to the burgeoning debate over [...]