its true, I had a converstion yesterday when it was very warm out about the advantages of most German homes being built out of stone blocks- "Why do the Americans build houses out of cheap plywood?" "well, it is cheap, but as far as much of many partsof the west coast go I just assumed that if you bulit out of stone then it would crumble in an earthquake and crush people..." at least in the past, not really sure if this reasoning is based in any sort of fact... but Europe is blessed with mild weather and for the most part a lack of natural disasters, that is for sure.
I was living in a stonehouse in Korea and after a major earthquake there were suddenly cracks in every wall... I was happy to get out of there before typhoon season. About the westcoast: most houses in San Francisco seemed pretty solid. But I think not one door actually closed properly! Maybe better to build cheap ones and build a new one when it breaks. Who wants last year's house anyway!
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its true,
I had a converstion yesterday when it was very warm out about the advantages of most German homes being built out of stone blocks-
"Why do the Americans build houses out of cheap plywood?"
"well, it is cheap, but as far as much of many partsof the west coast go I just assumed that if you bulit out of stone then it would crumble in an earthquake and crush people..." at least in the past, not really sure if this reasoning is based in any sort of fact... but Europe is blessed with mild weather and for the most part a lack of natural disasters, that is for sure.
I was living in a stonehouse in Korea and after a major earthquake there were suddenly cracks in every wall...
I was happy to get out of there before typhoon season.
About the westcoast: most houses in San Francisco seemed pretty solid. But I think not one door actually closed properly!
Maybe better to build cheap ones and build a new one when it breaks. Who wants last year's house anyway!
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