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Re:Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018) by robonerd on Saturday May 28, 2022 @12:23PM (#31541553)
He's talking about trees, not lumber. A nice healthy mature oak in the backyard is a thousand times nicer than a scrawny sapling that might give you shade in 20 years if it survives that long.

The flipside is that sometimes the mature tree isn't healthy, and remediation of a large and dying tree can be tricky and expensive.

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Re:Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018) by lupire on Saturday May 28, 2022 @02:50PM (#31542700)
Every a healthy mature tree is expensive to trim and will eventually fall on your house.
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Re:Why developers seem to only build luxury housing (2018) by robonerd on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:47PM (#31551091)
As is often the case, preventative maintenance is a lot cheaper than remediation. It's easier to safely dismantle a tree that is dying but not yet rotting. If you ignore the problem for too long, that's when things fall on your house and fixing your roof will cost a lot more than getting the tree removed properly a few years ago would have cost.
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