Didn't Used To Be Nowhere, Nebraska

So, I have been doing a little bit of research on the town I live in, and I found out that it used to be a booming metropolis-in-the-making. It was a railroad hub and had all kinds of larger businesses/factories until somehow (I'm not quite sure how this works yet) the city set a wage cap! I've never heard of a wage cap for an entire town before...but obviously the folks around here didn't catch on that this was a bad idea until it was too late. I don't think that there is still a wage cap, but I haven't found anyone who knows. Evidence of a cap may be that we took our car in for a new back end and didn't get it back until 3.5 weeks later. Yes, Luke backed into a pole on our first night out without Mayah. Anyhoo....I was thinking that if there was no potential to make any more money I wouldn't really put a lot of time or effort into my job either! That sounds terrible...maybe I should say that I would work really hard at whatever job I had even if I wasn't getting paid at all :) Hey wait a minute - I'm doing the hardest job I've ever had and I'm not getting paid...
Oh, and I have to add that I took our duvet and it's cover to the only cleaners in town, and I felt like I was time warped back to 1945, or I don't know - was there ever a time when cleanliness was out? Stacks of trash, empty boxes, newspapers, and I don't know what else lay scattered and stacked all up against the windows. If the duvet didn't smell like puke, I would've walked back out and never looked back. I guess they don't have to keep things up if there is no competition. That is kind of how everything here is...what's up with that? I don't know of any other place like this. Maybe everything just stayed the way things were when the wage cap was put into effect.
Going to bed...been up all night with puking Mayah...