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To: Ilaine who wrote (15852)	3/23/2007 12:24:50 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218176

Comparing real estate with Curitiba. There real estate moves according to generations. 80 years ago only the land owners had lots of money and build mansions. The big majority lived in wooden houses. The next generation -around the 50's- build half wooden, half bricks. The generation of the sixties they moved into apartment buildings and the rich moved to the northwest of the cities. By the late 70,s, the next generation kept moving into apartment buildings. The wooden houses were all demolished and in their places bricks houses were constructed. By the 90's most were living in apartment buildings. Then something changed. They started building gated communities and there was a move back to houses in those closed condominiuns as they called there. This is reaching the end right now. I don't know into what the next generation, the 10 year old today, will decide to move into.

To: Ilaine who wrote (15852)	3/23/2007 1:59:53 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 218176

Several years ago, at $323 per ounce, I went and had a look at lumps of gold in Auckland, at a bullion dealer, to see what I thought of the whole process. I decided to stick with what I already thought, which is what you said. On burying gold. There's a Chinese family here, one of whom [an old geezer] had gold stashed in the house. I forget the details, but at some stage the gold was gone. That was that. As a child, I buried a can of money in the garden, but then forgot where I buried it. I hadn't realized how prolifically gardens grow when not watching them. Maybe my rotten brother spied where I buried it and got it. I never thought of that until recently. I also had a leather container of 3d pieces. Threepences. I had about, I guess, 100 of them. 80 to a pound. That was at a time when a pound was worth, in today's money, about NZ$100. I was young, so that was serious money to me. Disappeared from my cupboard. I don't like having stashes of concentrated valuables which can be taken by stealth or force [by a criminal]. Publicly guarded assets can still be stolen and are, legally, or by revolution. For now, I prefer that option. I'm not at all thinking about gold. Polonium 210 must be valuable. Hmmmm.... Mqurice