>>>Have you been to any of the east coast big cities? Tons of brick houses.
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>>Manhattan would do, I assume.
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>>I think I was too harsh... should have defined "here" as "here in Virginia".
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>Houses built in Northern Virginia, or elsewhere in the Washington area, before the '60's are likely to be brick. The house I lived in until this year, built in the 30's, is brick with a few stones interspersed.

I remember that house - and that's what I meant. How many such houses are there, and how many of them built in the last 40 years? Last 20? So, the number of available knowledgeable bricklayers may be next to zero.