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Early 90s is about how far back you have to go, around here, to get an appreciably better-built house. Solid wood trim and doors! Cabinets that don't fall apart
by yamtaddle 3y ago
Early 90s is about how far back you have to go, around here, to get an appreciably better-built house. Solid wood trim and doors! Cabinets that don't fall apart when you so much as look at them! All in working-class houses of that age. I swear even the light switches feel like they're built better.
As long as it doesn't have a wood-single roof. Those haven't been good since some time in the '70s. Demand shot up in the '80s and they built a shitload of houses with fancy "50-year" wood roofs, but there wasn't enough lumber of the quality required to make them actually last 50 years (both increase in demand and an ever-declining quality of lumber in general caused this, I think) like older wooden roofs did, so they all started leaking after like 10-15 years. But at this point most of those have been replaced with regular ol' asphalt.