From: buzzard554@fastmail.co.uk   
      
   On 12/3/2018 10:14 PM, Eric Stevens wrote:   
   > On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 07:54:06 +0000, Martin Edwards   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 12/2/2018 7:56 AM, Eric Stevens wrote:   
   >>> On Sun, 2 Dec 2018 07:45:56 +0000, Martin Edwards   
   >>>  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 12/1/2018 7:07 PM, Oh so rich & successful JTEM wrote:   
   >>>>>     SolomonW wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>> Indeed, many of the others are silly too. We could make better steel,   
   >>>>>> concrete, water irrigation systems, etc if we wanted to. These are   
   economic   
   >>>>>> issues not technical   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Labor wasn't so much an issue in ancient times.   
   >>>>> And there was little or no concern for the well   
   >>>>> being of the workers. OSHA wasn't going to come   
   >>>>> after you...   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Time wasn't as big of an issue. Things took longer.   
   >>>>> Even when I was a kid I remember going to school   
   >>>>> with someone from "The Old World," talking about how   
   >>>>> it took five years to build a house over there. And   
   >>>>> that was when I was a kid, not 2,000 years ago.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> In that case things have changed.  I live in Birmingham and houses are   
   >>>> thrown up in a few weeks here.   
   >>>   
   >>> How many months of planning/permissions before the builder is allowed   
   >>> to start?   
   >>>   
   >> It varies.  Some vacant lots stay like that for years.   
   >   
   > That's often the most difficult and time consuming part of the   
   > building process.   
   >   
   Aggravated by "land banking", holding on to land till the price goes up.   
     In my area there are such lots, but on one of them, once the decision   
   made, houses went up very quickly.   
      
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