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Why do we take it for granted that growth is good? The discussion should be focused on what is sustainable, and what we have seen in Bend (I have lived here for 20 years, having moved from a small town in Wyoming to find a more "cosmopolitan" area) is obviously not sustainable.
Let's take the present circumstances of a soft housing market to re-evaluate the recent growth, its impacts on livability of Bend, and how to proceed without the manra of "growth is good."
The housing bubble popped; let's not re-inflate it.

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