WTF.
I thought that literally all of our steelwork was outsourced to asia at this point.
I live close to a town of <5k, and there's a steel plant in our town (but it is a shit job and well-paid for a reason, we often filter people at where I work by casually saying, "You could go work at the foundary."). There's a surprising number of them around when you start paying attention, or maybe that's just where I live.
Wow, there was an awesome steel mill not super far from where I grew up. It was always a creepy awesome ruin for as long as I could remember, even though it was still in business when I was little... I just didn't have a motorcycle back then and ride out that way when it was still running. But it was an interesting place to drink beer and be a retard teenager, when I was a retard teenager. Because it was out of business and just weirdly abandoned and empty and not quite in the middle of nowhere, but off to the side and a bit north of nowhere.
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