The town remains nearly empty and deserted, with Erdos denizens preferring their old houses and apartments, and the vast majority of new residences purchased as investments by people from who knows where.

FORBES: Erdos Per Capita GDP May Surpass Hong Kong's in 3 years

But to visit Bend now is to be in the eye of housing hurricane, with nearly deserted housing tracts, woefully empty hotels and residential second-home developments.

FORBES: Magazine Article

The beaches are deserted, the seafront hotels empty.

ECONOMIST: West Africa's wars

Benny Avni saw, here and there, decrepit dovecotes, livestock stables turned into shops, the skeleton of an old truck sunk to its hips in savage growth beside a deserted tin shed or an empty doghouse.

NEWYORKER: Waiting

We were greeted by a deserted terminal and a sea of empty plastic chairs.

CNN: From Our Correspondent: Pathein's Four Just Men

McCHESNEY: To the south of Houston, toward Galveston, all along I-45 are miles of deserted shopping malls with their huge empty parking lots illustrating the massive exodus.

NPR: Gridlock Hampers Texas Evacuation Efforts

But the vast empty car park outside the Art of War City and its near-deserted courtyards suggest the town is struggling.

ECONOMIST: China abroad