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My observations passing through rural Texas matches this. You frequently see houses that probably only served 1 maybe 2 generations and then they are in a poor
by conductr 5y ago
My observations passing through rural Texas matches this. You frequently see houses that probably only served 1 maybe 2 generations and then they are in a poor condition uninhabitable by even those folks used to roughing it. Housing stock in rural areas just doesn’t last long.
- jason-phillips 5y agoFinding good carpenters out here who can do structural repairs is effectively impossible.
- 01100011 5y agoFWIW I lived in San Diego and saw this too. Houses bought by parents for $50k in 1973 ended up being unmaintainable for some of the families even with Prop 13 keeping their taxes low. Then you'd have houses passes to kids, sometimes with drug problems, but in any case, no resources or knowledge sufficient to maintain a house.