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Californians live in wooden shacks. Compare post-earthquake images from China to post-earthquake images from California, and those "shacks" look a bit better.

• candiodari 9y ago
  That explains the "wooden" part, but European wooden houses still look a lot better and sturdier than Californian ones, or American ones in general. And they do build that way even where earthquakes do happen. And European ones especially vastly outperform American ones when it comes to sound and climate isolation (warm or cold, doesn't matter). The sad part is that those European wooden houses are considered amongst the worst possible houses in Europe when it comes to isolation, again both where it comes to sound and where it comes to climate.