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To: Crocodile who wrote (1215)	12/30/2004 1:12:49 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

Croc, those houses sound kind of tacky. The stuff I looked at is pretty good, but the growth is endlessly gobbling up orange groves, cotton fields, desert foothills, etc. BTW, I just read that lots more Canucks are visiting the USA to take advantage of our cheap currency. Here are some stats from Wednesday's Arizona Republic... 2004 projected visitor arrivals to the US from the top 10 countries, and the change from 2003: Canada: 13.5m, up 6.9% Mexico: 11m, up 4.7% UK: 4.3m, up 9.1% Japan: 3.8m, up 20% Germany: 1.3m, up 11.9% France: 765k up 11.1% South Korea: 631k, up 2.1% Australia: 501k, up 23.5% Italy: 459k, up 14.9% Netherlands: 421k, up 12.6%

To: Crocodile who wrote (1215)	12/30/2004 1:56:43 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1293

>>one of the local towns up here once had a very active cement block factory<< My home town had a cement block factory too, but the blocks were mainly used to build farm silos and house basements. The ICF (insulated concrete form) method sounds pretty good. First the styrofoam forms are set up and reinforced with steel, then the concrete is poured. The foam is left in place for insulation. The result is a strong, well-insulated house for about the same price as wood construction. Not sure I like the idea of all that styrofoam in the house, though. It may out-gas some unpleasant chemicals.