As well as devastating entire towns and villages, the quakes brought fears of a surge in people trafficking in the poor, rural areas that were worst affected.
The other is the sluggish performance of Britain's older industrial towns – the bits of the country that were worst hit by de-industrialisation and have been slowest to recover from the recession of 2008-09.
A disorderly exit by Greece would probably raise fears about the other eurozone countries that were worst hit by the financial crisis and the interest rates on their government bonds would rise.
In the past decade, rates of childhood asthma, as well as obesity and diabetes, have soared in the very neighborhoods that were worst affected by the crime waves of the 70's, 80's and 90's.
"The risk of a double-dip recession across the UK as a whole is growing – and is now a near certainty in those regions that were worst hit by the recession.
But now, as new foreclosures slow and lenders are forced to let old cases languish for legal reasons, some of the regions that were worst off when foreclosures were at flood tide are much improved with the process stalled.
