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> Modern construction requires a significant amount of maintenance. I was raised with the rule of thumb that you should budget 1% of the purchase price of a ho
by rodgerd 3y ago
> Modern construction requires a significant amount of maintenance.
I was raised with the rule of thumb that you should budget 1% of the purchase price of a house for maintenance; while that's roughly true for my century-old villa that I purchased at the turn of the century, I suspect that the hockey-stick of residential housing has made it a bit inaccurate.
And something that I didn't really understand until an architect cousin explained to me is that modern commercial buildings mostly have a designed lifespan, typically 50-100 years.
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- jonhohle 3y agoYeah, modern commercial buildings suck compared to many of the old skyscrapers and government buildings built >100 years ago. The Empire State Building, the capitol building, grand central station, etc. Just walking through them you can tell by the materials and craftsmanship that they were built to last. Modern buildings, on the other hand, feel cheap and their unlimited flexibility leaves them with no inherent character.