>>Alex
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>...Hey if I had my choice between working in a tiny squat building made in 1492 with some..uhhh.. 'history'... or sitting on the 80th floor of a fine new hi-tech glass skyscrapper - I'll take the fine new one.

We're still living in the 1492 buildings over here! :-)

>Plus...what are you gonna do when you start running out of realestate?

Never mind that. What are you gonna do when you run out of the Earth's resources? This is the attitude that gives Americans bad press.

>There is only so much land - and when you run out - you build bigger and taller..right? So tear down those old worthless tiny buildings and put up some fine new skyscrappers!
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>...and put me up a shopping mall!

I guess Joni Mitchel's Canadian.

>Hey you can leave the national parks and forests, ok? Comercialize, industralize, give me concrete and steel! And when the building gets too small - do it again! When the shopping mall doesn't cut it anymore - tear it down and build me somethin else new! With this attitude - we'll be the one's leaving the others in the dust!