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xyzzyz on April 18, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: We've Built Cities We Can't Afford

Microsoft practically built a whole suburban town far from Seattle and made it its headquarters. It subsidizes suburbia because it is suburbia.

Aloha on April 18, 2020 [–]

Workers from Boeing 'built' the suburbia that Microsoft moved to, most of the housing in Redmond predates Microsoft.

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