Like maybe it insulates better for their specific climate or environment etc? Everyone likes dunking on this shit but there's obviously a reason it became so widely used.I suppose what I'm saying is I'd like to start by giving the benefit of the doubt instead of just recycling stale memes ad nauseum.
>>220581543cheap material, quick and easy to build
>>220581543It's cheap. Every time you tell an American he should use better materials for a house the excuse is always that it would be too expensive.
It rots before you die and your children have to work hard to get their own house.
>>220581543It's cheap and fast (for the builder/contractor).That's literally it.
>>220581543Most expensive part of construction is labor. Wood like that isn't cheaper because of the materials, but because you can use less skilled (cheaper) labor and have it done faster
>>220581543There's nothing wrong with wood. Like any other material it has advantages and disadvantages. I think most memes about amerihomes show ones built by the cheapest mexican.
>>220582544>I think most memes about amerihomes show ones built by the cheapest mexican.So all of them.
No wonder mexicans love being construction workers in USA. It's literally just like building a house in Sims. There's no lifting 80kg buckets, no mixing concrete or standing all day.
>>220581543Americans value money first and foremost. That's the only possible reason. Cheaper and faster.
>>220581543It's cheap and america has tons of empty land so the average american can buy a 400 squaremeter house and pay like 50 dollar a month
>>220581543absolutely none except cost. we build with wood here too and while the stick frame might look kinda the same we do the rest completely different.the way they cover the entire house with osb and then fake brick on the outside creates a moisture barrier on the wrong side of the insulation that makes it start to rot in the first winter.
I can't imagine being able to put your fist through the wall.
>>220581543americans don't know the story of three little pigs
>>220583766Europeans joke about this online but it's unironically not a rare phenomenon here. Every now and then you hear stories of some guy's autistic cousin or misbehaved 8 yr-old kid putting a hole in the wall while playing tag or throwing a toy or something.
>>220583766thats only drywall, plasterboard or whatever you call it and thats a thing in uk as well. you cant punch through an osb board unless its rotten, nor any kind of wood panel, fake or real. your fist will be busted, bloody and broken long before you are through.
planned obsolescence so that insurance companies have a steady income
>>220581543The only advantage is that it's cheap. The house will still fall apart within 10 years.
>>220581543>I'd like to start by giving the benefit of the doubt instead of just recycling stale memes ad nauseum.Deport this man to a higher iq board
>>220581543>”that’ll be $700,000usd, please”
>>220583830If the wolf comes to their cardboard castle they will shoot it o algo
Part of it is also (((planned obsolescence))). Traditional stone/brick/cement thirdie huts can be passed down generation after generation, so the entire family can live in that house for centuries. Here the modern developments start falling apart around the 30-40 year mark, which conveniently is around the lifespan of a single generation. Curious! It's by design so the kids can't just inherit a house, they are forced to (((wageslave))) to get rent-trapped in some bullshit apartment with 5 roommates while saving up so they can *maybe* eventually "buy" a house (((financed with mortgage))) all to keep the wagecuckery flowing.
It's a highly optimized process. Concrete foundation, wood frame, wood paneling, plastic/metal liner, viny/brick/wood/metal siding. It's all you need. Some builders cut corners but many don't, you get what you pay for. It will last forever if you take care of it and address issues before they grow.I don't even know what the alternative is other people allude to. Cinder block 3rd world shanties? Stone hovels from the year of our lord 1200 AD? None of you are going to commission a fucking all masonry chateau or brick mansion, you're retards. That would cost millions of dollars.
>>220584549It's the opposite in the third world. Skilled labor is dirt cheap while materials cost more.
>>220584549>I don't even know what the alternative is other people allude toBrick, retard. I'm not sure why you think it's impossible when most of the world already does exactly that. Cost can be kept down since they aren't building massive poorly designed McMansions with a bunch of unused space made for contemporary peasants to feel rich.
>>220584486this doesnt make sense. ok, the house will be trash in 10-20 years but then tear it down and build a proper one on the same property? or rebuildt it piece by piece?a thing about american suburbs that confuse me is how everything is done through a developer who buys the land, designs and build all the houses. here we mostly skip the developer part, the land owner makes much more if he split out the properties himself and let each buyer build his own house as he see fit.but once you own a "planned obsolence" house in usa, why not let it rot and build a brick or scandic style house there instead? cheaper than another property with a planned obsoloence house.
>>220585199Americans are obsessed with constantly moving and think it's uncool if you stay in your hometown your whole life. Often it's also for job opportunities. So even if the kids inherit the land and property, they'd rather just sell it and move to a different McMansion in another state rather than rebuild a new house on that land.
>>220581543i understand every argument for the american house and they all make sense cheap materials,fast lifestyle,constant moving for new ventures,tornado it all makes sense.I just dont understand why they cost a milion dollars.
>>220585336well i moved more than most americans. im in my 12th housing now, second one i own. but my family home has always been the same and it will always be but only now recently, with my permission, are they considering handing it down to my nephew, skipping both me and my sister. the meme that we move out at 15-16 is real and due to school or early work, most of us end up back home eventually.
>>220585411because a housing developer buy all the land, buildt the house and then ask a million for it.
>>220585528For developers/builders, it's just more profitable to sell two shitty houses every 50 years than one house that lasts 200 years. Part of it is also consumer ignorance. Most buyers here don't even realize the McMansions are made of shit, and they mostly value a house being "new" and "big". A lot of them think brick veneer is solid brick. They also want the simplicity of just walking through a pre-built new subdivision and picking one out rather than designing and spec'ing out a house. So developers are not incentivized to build a proper brick+concrete house.
>>220585709And even if they did know about the material and build quality, its basically like >well I'll be moving again once the kids finish high school here in a few years so who cares about the longevity of this house
>>220581543nothey're just quick and cheap to buildbut they aren't so cheap to buy so yeah
>>220581543Not really
Most of the US has unstable lime, sand, and shale underneath. This is why we have so many pier and beam homes. People joke about wood, but it's highly flexible. Even though most homes have wooden frames with plywood walls, we still use bricks for decoration and added weather protection. If you find a 50+ year old brick home, you will absolutely see cracks in the mortar. There is no flexibility at all and it's expensive to fix. Meanwhile that wood behind it is perfectly fine. The only major downside to wood is building in hot humid climates. Termites and carpenter ants will eventually eat your house if you don't spray for them every year. They are a much bigger threat than tornadoes. This is another thing most Europeans have no fucking clue about. It doesn't matter if you're in a box of match sticks or steel framed concrete building. An F5 tornado will tear through that shit. The safest place to be is deep underground. I've seen it rip out the concrete roads on the highway and chunks of earth. I've donated to the families of people who died inside so called secure buildings through work. They will have no fucking clue unless they see it first hand.
>>220583766I have a drywall as one of my shower walls (I remodeled the apartment and there used to be a doorway there) and I'm afraid that if I were to slip in the shower I might punch a hole there.
>>220581543>advantagescheaper
>>220588823US bathrooms use concrete board around water. There is a rubber basin at the bottom of the shower with tile over everything.
>>220585411low costs and high profitsalso everyone's private pensions are invested in housing so if houses don't perpetually get more expensive nobody can retireit is a symptom of retardation
>>220588948us bathrooms are SUPPOSED to use cement board around water. out of the five homes i've lived in in my life three had to have a shower demolished and rebuilt because the original construction mexicans put tile over drywall
>>220588948At my place part of the wall is drywall over aluminium frame covered in same tiles as the rest of the walls, with plastic basin at the floor and plastic doors.
>>220588535>TermitesI have to google it often because we don't have this species. Does this shock you?
>>220585709for the land owners its more profitable to just sell empty plots with road access, water, sewage and power. here; plan, order and build your own house. that would be 200k.but i dont think that would work in usa, you are so used to cookie cutter suburbs you wouldnt know how to build your own house but you would have a strong opinion on how your neighbour shouldnt buildt his.
>>220589263>you wouldnt know how to build your own house but you would have a strong opinion on how your neighbour shouldnt buildt histhis is anglo culture
>>220589021Consider yourself lucky. We don't have them in colder climates in the US. People can build nice log cabins because the cold kills them off in the winter. They don't have to worry about this. If you built a log cabin in Florida the house would be completely devoured in under a decade.
What do people even put in their 8 bedroom - 3 living room - 4 hobby room - 5 bathroom houses?
>>220590136A lot of Americans have a kino room like picrel. A home gym is another common option. Or they just use them as a "guest bedroom" even if guests never stay over.
