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1. i worked in the new housing industry during the boom. the owners would bluster along these lines:

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun May 6, 2012, 06:17 PM

May 2012

'we built 200 houses last year, next year we'll build 400, and the next 800....'

and i'd be thinking to myself there's no fucking way, every other buidler is thinking that way, that's totally unsustainable...

and i wasn't wrong...

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