The term boomtown gets tossed around pretty liberally these days, last year Rupert was presented as a boomtown in the making. It’s a simple word that seems to have spurred on real estate values to rather silly points all while a population base remains stagnant at below 14,000 people.
Much talk was heard a year ago about the boom to come, which may still be on the horizon but certainly hasn’t shown up in the downtown area with new stores, in fact one shopping centre project was cancelled despite the boom to come…
( from the blog a town called podunk, click on the link below to see the entire article atowncalledpodunk.blogspot.com/2 … 2482512439 )-