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It's a tradeoff, as you allude to at the end. Our house is a mid-1800s build. Thus it's safe to say that there's some survival bias at work and it was solid eno
by jghn 3y ago
It's a tradeoff, as you allude to at the end. Our house is a mid-1800s build. Thus it's safe to say that there's some survival bias at work and it was solid enough to persevere. There are things our friends with newer houses go through that we never experience. On other hand, we have our own issues. retrofitting modern benefits is difficult, at best.
- bombcar 3y agoIt also varies on location, too - around here the 1800s houses are decent "all around" except for what you'd expect for an almost 200 year old building. But in other areas I've lived houses that old will have major issues that have to be remedied eventually (as my builder there said, the tops and bottoms are shit, the middle is great - because the river rock foundation would crumble to dust eventually, and the roofs were basket cases) - costing hundreds of thousands. And most of them were marked historic, making it even worse.