The Ponzi State
George Packer on the dire situation in Florida resulting from the housing-market collapse and the Great Recession.
Bunny—"just Bunny"—grew up on Utopia Parkway in Queens, chased the sun to Hawaii, Arizona, and West Palm Beach before ending up in Twin Lakes, Florida. George Packer found her watering her lawn in hip-hugging Capris, the only person on gently curving streets of foreclosed houses and collapsed inflatable Santas.