Is It About Real Estate or "all about me"
Almost everything I hear or read translates in my noodle to be about Real Estate. No matter what. If I can possibly make a connection, I WILL!! Even if I can't make a connection, sometimes I DO!!!! Not consciously you understand, not because I wake up every morning and say "today I need to think more about Real Estate". I just do It because, Well,...... I just do It.
To be fair, I generally think about Utah Real Estate, none of this National stuff for me. At least I'm loyal. If I see an article about Condos for sale in another city, my mind reads the page as Condominiums, Murray/ Riverton/ West Jordan. I can't help myself. To me, like politics, all Real Estate is local.
I guess its not the worst flaw I could have, but it does make me wonder; just how unique am I ? Help me out here. I'm going to list some very interesting facts about Utah published in the 3rd quarter issue of CEO magazine. They all made me think about helping someone buy a house. What did they bring to your mind? If your in the car business, did you think of these numbers as customers ? How about the entertainment business ? Ticket sales ? If your a mortician ? Well lets not go there. But you see what I mean.
My thanks to Robert Spendlove, Chief Economist for the Governor's office, and Mark Knold, Chief Economist,Utah Dept. of Workforce Services.
Average annual pay in Utah increased 5.2 % in 06, the highest in 14 years.
Utah ranked as 6th fastest growing state in 06.
In migration accounted for about half of Utah's population growth over the last 2 years.
Births topped 52000 state wide, the highest in history.
Utah has the highest percentage -25%- of part time employment in the nation.
Forty seven per cent of Utah's labor force (16-65 ) is 35 or younger. No other state tops 40%.
I hope you enjoyed reading these little known facts about our state, and I hope you were thinking, CARS, or TICKETS or COFFINS, cause I really don't want it to be "all about me"