Most properties need to be gutted and remodeled around once every 50 years or sooner so construction that is easily remodeled, sometimes in dramatic ways, is mo

Most properties need to be gutted and remodeled around once every 50 years or sooner so construction that is easily remodeled, sometimes in dramatic ways, is more optimal. That said may europeans live in old structures that are very suboptimal but they call it "character." Also most of the biggest houses built by european nobility over the centuries are now only usuable as museums, or as commercial conversions as schools or hotels, and again it's mostly about character rather than convenience and capability.