> In Russia and in Kazakhstan everyone builds house with thick (70-150 cm) walls with bricks and with good foundation. Even poor people don't build houses from

> In Russia and in Kazakhstan everyone builds house with thick (70-150 cm) walls with bricks and with good foundation. Even poor people don't build houses from plywood. But in America it seems that everyone, poor and rich builds extremely fragile houses. Not everyone. In the more rural areas there are a lot of farm houses build very solidly. These are usually build according to traditional techniques stemming from the European guilds of carpenters and masons.