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I'm in Western Australia and building standards are pretty high here, but we have very few earthquakes.

• noir_lord 3y ago
  > The housing stock in England is shit for a reason and it's entirely historic. To an extent that's always been true I'll agree but it has gotten better and worse at times, when we where looking at houses I specifically gave more weight to stuff built in the 70's/80's over anything after that or before that, relatively new (for our housing stock) but built at a time when pride in work was still a thing. As a result the build quality on my house is excellent (and I used to be a sparkie so I know a lot of the trades tricks). The new builds we looked at had much better energy efficiency but god when you go look in the loft/anywhere that wasn't immediately visible was the quality dire plus tiny in comparison, 90sq/m2 for the same as we paid for a 4 bed 128 sq/m2.