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Old Posted Feb 9, 2016, 2:01 AM
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Originally Posted by lzppjb View Post
lol can you even imagine how much of a building that big would sit empty for years in Austin?
Can you imagine how much of that building sits empty in Dubai, a metro smaller than Austin, and with a smaller economy (albeit not directly comparable), much greater wealth inequality, and a gigantic reliance on very fragile tourism industry built on unsustainable economics?

... albeit it has perhaps a higher profile globally ...
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