>>What is sooooo bad about a collapse?
>For me, nothing.
>I've always avoided benefited financially from them because of my super-conservative strategies.
>I suspect that the next one is a way off, though. My house has still not reached the value it reached at the peak of the madness - although the houses in NY are now above those levels.

Nosy me
What was estimated peak of madness value and
What was estimated bottom after Lehman and
what do you consider dependable value (= outside crunch/panic selling, worth of ground, labour and material)