# Ratio of population supported by a factory?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 30, 2023, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ratio-of-population-supported-by-a-factory/990898 "2023-09-30T03:07:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2023, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ratio-of-population-supported-by-a-factory/990898/20 "2023-09-30T14:28:05Z")

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You (OP) might find this thread interesting. It’s about a land developer planning to build a large fully planed “utopia” community. The thread starts out pretty mysterious about who and why, but pretty quickly the mystery is revealed to be pretty mundane, just audaciously large.

> [@Mysterious company buys land next to Travis Air Force Base in California. What's going on?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mysterious-company-buys-land-next-to-travis-air-force-base-in-california-whats-going-on/988479):
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> [Maybe it’s nothing, but a company is apparently paying unusually high prices for land right next to an Air Force Base in California.](https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/11/politics/cfius-review-land-buys-near-air-force-base/index.html) I do like a good mystery and I’d love it if there was some skullduggery around this story. Or maybe it’s just a way to sell the news.

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