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Originally posted by pintohoo:
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''- the higher standards of housing expected and indeed mandated A lot of things add to the cost: - people expect more...2 or 3 bathrooms (unheard of when I was young) - solar panels, aircon, outdoor entertainment areas etc etc (not that there's anything wrong with that), but many things that were not part of the cost in earlier times - the increased cost I think anyway brought on by the shift to subcontractors about 40 years ago, which added a package of costs greater than when they were carried as a group by employers - and then of course the cost now of imported material''
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Yes I should have mentioned that, but it's not new and proportionally may not be greater than the past. I don't know.
