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My guess would be that there are enough natural catastrophes which make it cheaper to build a house from scratch than a sturdy house. There was a conference tal
by weitzj 5y ago
My guess would be that there are enough natural catastrophes which make it cheaper to build a house from scratch than a sturdy house.
There was a conference talk roughly ten years ago which talked about houses and joked about people not knowing the tale of the three little pigs.
- Mordisquitos 5y agoEven if for the sake of the argument we accept that natural catastrophes incentivise cheaper construction over sturdiness (which is very debatable), surely the entirety of the USA + Canada are not subject to the same risk of natural disasters, nor is Europe as a whole safe from them altogether. As far as I know, construction is not sturdier in the safer regions of North America, nor is it cheaper in the less safe parts of Europe.