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Yep. My house, and all neighbors around live in brick houses. In my country people have this strange notion from Hollywood movies that if house isn't made from
by vincnetas 9y ago
Yep. My house, and all neighbors around live in brick houses. In my country people have this strange notion from Hollywood movies that if house isn't made from bricks, you can punch though the walls with a fist :) And we also know kid stories about tree piggies.
- atonse 9y agoEven now folks in India (my home country) are always amused when they see an American house being built. They say "it looks like it was built from toothpicks" – and my answer is always "have you actually held a 2x4? Hardly a toothpick." I'm not sure about the structural pros and cons of wood vs brick, but from what I've seen here in the mid-atlantic, brick is nowadays used more as a decorative outside layer, rather than a superior structure (for homes at least).
- Spooky23 9y agoA few years ago, a kid on a dirt bike thought he was being chased by the police and cut through a subdivision. He hit something, wiped out and was thrown into the side of a $600k McMansion at 10-15 mph. The construction was poor and the impact caused the glue holding outside on the house to fail... most of the side of the house fell off.