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>people in single-family homes are still quite sensitive to gasoline powered leaf blowers starting at 7am, motorcycles with straight pipes, and cars with ridicu
by shiroiushi 3y ago
>people in single-family homes are still quite sensitive to gasoline powered leaf blowers starting at 7am, motorcycles with straight pipes, and cars with ridiculous sound systems, though those may be more of a problem with US culture than in Japan.
Those things aren't problems in Japan, those are problems with US culture. One big reason I moved to Japan was so I didn't have to be a multi-millionaire to get away from those things and many other similar problems with US culture.
Anyway, the point is that your prior post incorrectly implied that Japan does not have wood houses, which cannot be farther from the truth. Almost all the single-family homes here are wood.
- fragmede 3y agoAh. Not sure how you read that I said that there were no wood houses in Japan, but thanks for the correction :)
- shiroiushi 3y ago>Wood can flex in a potential earthquake, that's true, they used that in Japan centuries ago, but we've got better materials and technology today. This line seems to imply that modern, new houses in Japan are not made of wood any more. They are. In fact, wood is being used for more and larger stuff, both in Japan and in other countries, because it's flexible and more eco-friendly than steel and concrete. Of course, wood has its weaknesses (like termites) that have to be dealt with using proper engineering practices, but so does reinforced concrete, as seen in the big condo collapse in Miami not that long ago. That said, 10+ story buildings are probably still going to be made of reinforced concrete for the foreseeable future, and Japan has far better construction and maintenance standards than the US for tall buildings, which is why seaside buildings don't randomly collapse here, despite the frequent earthquakes.