Why do you Americans build most of your houses out of that weird wood structure ? I can't help but think it'll produces building that won't last (though maybe I'm wrong). Most of old buildings were I live are made out of bricks and they're still perfectly livable hundreds of years later.
most of the country suffers from natural disasters on a scale largely unheard of in europe (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes) yet we have brick houses while they have wooden shit that gets blown over by a breeze. it makes no sense
That’s one reason why houses are made cheaply, it doesn’t make financial sense to pour money into more expensive housing that’s just going to get destroyed. It’s much cheaper in many places to just rebuild. I should note that keeping prices as they are is a policy goal.
why build a structure that will stay up 200 years when the 'investor' (first owner) wont live that long? just gotta send it down the line and make money
Why do you Americans build most of your houses out of that weird wood structure ? I can't help but think it'll produces building that won't last (though maybe I'm wrong). Most of old buildings were I live are made out of bricks and they're still perfectly livable hundreds of years later.
Because it's cheap. That's it. I wish I was kidding.
Think no further
most of the country suffers from natural disasters on a scale largely unheard of in europe (tornadoes, hurricanes, earthquakes) yet we have brick houses while they have wooden shit that gets blown over by a breeze. it makes no sense
That’s one reason why houses are made cheaply, it doesn’t make financial sense to pour money into more expensive housing that’s just going to get destroyed. It’s much cheaper in many places to just rebuild. I should note that keeping prices as they are is a policy goal.
why build a structure that will stay up 200 years when the 'investor' (first owner) wont live that long? just gotta send it down the line and make money
Only idiots build things that are made to last, that's how you put yourself out of a market!
Secondly, only idiots build houses for people to live in, these are just put here to be sold.
Because building good houses costs too much money for developers who want to build fast and gtfo