Ideally a retiree should seek out states and areas where land and construction costs are affordable.
Cheung said looking forward, if land and labor costs in central and western provinces continue to rise rapidly, factories would be unwilling to relocate there due to their inferior logistics network.
Add in capitalized costs like land and planting, and you won't be making money anytime soon.
And because of the expense of that land, and the costs of developing on it, new entrants do not enter the market.
Not in Asia, where land is cheap and labor costs are low.
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For Bangkok, projections of damage costs double from land use patterns alone.
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Urban land shortages and subsequent higher costs, coupled with a general densification trend, means high rises are sprouting rapidly in even the most sprawling of urban landscapes.
In Asia, where land is cheap and labor costs are low, enormous shopping malls are popping up in Dubai, China, and the Philippines, with India expected to jump into the fold soon.
The costs for protecting land areas were worked out by including estimates of what would be needed to protect sites from threats including deforestation, poaching and over harvesting as well as improving existing conservation zones.
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High entry costs, such as land and equipment, keep many younger farmers away.
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Mr Biggs said he was assured six weeks ago that a deal was imminent but there was still haggling over costs of developing the land and existing debts.
That means unnecessary costs, wasteful use of land resources, adverse environmental impact and additional burdens on the taxpayer.
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But Albuquerque stood out for its cheap housing, low taxes and labor costs and lots of developable land that lay idle.
Crowe warned that "stubbornly tight mortgage lending conditions, " bad appraisals, rising material costs and a shortage of land pose challenges to homebuilders in the future.
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Faced with increasing costs, competition and limited land to expand his dad's winemaking business in Bethon, France, Laurent Gruet set his sights on the New World.
Typically, capital costs will expand with distance from land and water depth and contract as the size of a project increases.
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Brazil, with its abundant land and water, higher yields and lower costs than India, was a logical choice, according to strategy head Watve.
Public mineral resources become private the minute you pull them from the ground, meaning the only costs incurred from mining on public land are operating expenses.
In general, capital costs are twice as high as land-based.
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Reeling off the costs of farming, from paying for land, to fertilizer, seed and labor, Juliuson says that an extra nickel in the price of beans could help him retire someday.
High transport costs have made them uncompetitive, and their land is not well-suited to other crops.
Costs affiliated with wages, raw materials, land, and transportation were included as potentially prohibitive with 65% saying that labor was the greatest source of concern.
Compare that to railroads, which got a lot of land gifts a century ago but now cover all the costs to maintain their rights of way.
Compare that with railroads, which got a lot of land gifts a century ago but now cover all the costs of maintaining their rights of way.
Since offshore costs are 2 to 3 times those on land, one needs to put in the biggest turbines possible to take advantage of the constant winds offshore.
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Costs result from constraining development and therefore inflating land prices.
These are highly mobile land rigs that can be easily moved, which reduces drilling costs for producers.
To put up such a structure, working largely under sand-filled water, costs three to five times what it would on land for perhaps 50 years of life.
This will most likely entail increasing the corn ethanol mix in petroleum, running up food costs, depleting water supplies, and causing environmental land damage while affording no net CO2 emission reduction.
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