Why do 'muricans build such shitty quality houses?
Why do 'muricans build such shitty quality houses?
Jose Roberts
Jordan Peterson
I think it's because hurricanes or some shit like that, and that's why they have basements
Evan Martin
Poverty.
Oliver Nguyen
But the ones that don't get hurricanes still have this drywall shit.
Lucas Perry
Actually basements aren't really a thing in the south
Isaac Sullivan
>"Hey we're on a huricane risk area, let's build shitty houses with paperboard"
Sounds pretty retarded tbqh
Nathan King
Americans are semi-nomadic.
They follow hurricanes in their cars picking up whatever it leaves behind and build a temporary mutthovels with it.
Aaron Mitchell
It's not, it's just capitalism, you fuckin g communist
Michael Allen
So capitalism means living in poor conditions?
Sebastian Scott
Because it's cheap
Jace Parker
>poor conditions
wot
Oliver Gonzalez
It means your house has to be easily ruined so you are forced to buy a new one.
It's similar to planned obsolescence.
Lucas Baker
We have lower standards. Companies mass produce shit houses as fast as possible and then sell them quick. Neigborhoods are usually horribly planned as well.
Ryan Hernandez
>Why aren't all the walls structural like my one room favela shack?
William Gomez
seconded
gud lawd, we need kill off the jews already
Michael Campbell
Americans prefer size and value over quality. Most of their homes are third world tier in construction, but the upside is that they're fucking huge. Easily 2-3 times larger than the average European home.
Sebastian Nelson
I always wondered why their houses are made out of cardboard
Nolan Smith
>Be a **r*p**n
>trip, hit head on the wall
>fucking die
Christopher Sullivan
the worst part are their roofs, literally just plywood covered in plastic
Jose Sullivan
This country has such a vast amount of available space that tract developers prefer to build legions of hulking, monstrous "luxury homes" with horrible building materials than normal houses with good building materials. It should also be noted that American houses in general, not just tract garbage, are typically built with extremely low-quality lumber and paper-thin dry-walls, are designed in a schizophrenic hodgepodge of unrelated styles, have horrendous massing, balance, rhythm, unity, and any other architectural principle you can think of, are built in the middle of isolated fields with no sidewalks in the middle of nowhere, and feature fake EVERYTHING, from the atrocious building materials themselves (flimsy, shiny strips of plastic that you could rip off with your bare hands are used in place of actual clapboards, hollow "stucco" literally made of cardboard and Styrafoam that you could easily kick a hole through, etc.) to the muntins on windows (thin plastic grids placed inside of a full-sash pane that don't actually separate any individual panes), exterior columns (hollow and metal, and with small slats at the bottoms that you can look right through), quoins, keystones, and other traditionally-stone mouldings (made of fake stucco and look outrageously tacky and exaggerated, like something you would see in LazyTown), and entire dormers (see ). American houses built since the 1980s and 1990s are not real buildings; they are temporary movie-set props that people reside in until they're destroyed by light gusts of wind and another movie-set prop needs to be built. They have no architectural integrity whatsoever, and they fortunately won't exist 150 years from now while many older structures are still standing in good condition.
Charles Reyes
>Easily 2-3 times larger than the average European home
who cares i dont have my entire fucking family of 5 kids because im a fucking presbytarian catholic who gets his wife pregnant every time he fucks.
not to mention these houses are miles from anywhere and you need a car to actually get somewhere, id always choose to pay 500k for a place thats in the middle of a city, might be small but i know i can step outside and im bang in the middle of everything i need