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Houses are made in factories in America, and they are generally regarded as a supremely inferior product, at the very least because of width constraints for shi
by googlryas 3y ago
Houses are made in factories in America, and they are generally regarded as a supremely inferior product, at the very least because of width constraints for shipping them via trucks on highways.
In what countries can you get high quality factory-built housing?
- pfannkuchen 3y agoThey mean the components, presumably.
- astrange 3y agoYou could in the past relative to the quality of average homes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_Modern_Homes Currently you can't get them in other countries, if by houses you mean buildings shaped like American houses. That's because we made it illegal to build any other type. https://www.construction-physics.com/p/japans-skyscraper-factories https://www.construction-physics.com/p/japans-skyscraper-fac... (Also recommend reading everything else he wrote. This is an inaccurate summary of it.) Also, here's a building in Seattle that's a new type of wood called "mass timber" that can be built very quickly and cheaply. It wasn't legal until recently, and I'm not sure if it is in other cities yet. https://x.com/bobbyfijan/status/1639720917042438145 https://x.com/bobbyfijan/status/1639720917042438145