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steve2470

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Sat Nov 1, 2014, 07:28 PM Nov 2014

Google CEO Larry Page: Million Dollar Houses In Silicon Valley Should Only Cost $50,000 [View all]

http://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-larry-page-houses-should-only-cost-50000-2014-11

Google CEO Larry Page thinks houses in Silicon Valley are needlessly expensive.

He believes million dollar homes should be going for $50,000.

Richard Waters at the Financial Times interviewed Page, and reported the following:

"Even more than technology, he puts this down to policy changes needed to make land more readily available for construction. Rather than exceeding $1m, there’s no reason why the median home in Palo Alto, in the heart of Silicon Valley, shouldn’t cost $50,000, he says."




Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/google-ceo-larry-page-houses-should-only-cost-50000-2014-11#ixzz3HrXVZtcB
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