• Sturgist
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    3 days ago

    I’ve moved to the UK from Vancouver. When I was still there, my work partner (who is edging towards retirement, 65 and still slinging 50+kg stones onto the wall) told me we’re being offered half the piece rate. It’s a struggle to get $20/ft² and back in the 70s and into the first half of the 90s $50+/ft² was the norm. And this isn’t some backwoods slap-it-up job, talking 20,000ft² around the base of 5 new apartment towers $18/ft², ¾ of a billion dollar mansion, $16.50.