I saw Hell or High Water over the weekend.
Great movie, highly recommended.
It takes place in West Texas and depicts life after the collapse in 2008.
The question is this -- have they recovered?
What the movie shows is really bad. Not at all what it's like in NYC or Calif.
Erik S says: "TX in general was buoyed by strength in the oil after the 2008 collapse. West TX had a multi-year boom. Then oil prices tanked."
I did a video about this post. Recursion! :-)