Why do so many Americans put up with cheap, crappily-built houses - even when those houses are ''McMansions?'?
Princesita Bonita/Pedasito/Bebita/Preciosa/Bonita<33
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Wednesday, 4th of August 2010 08:17:40 AM
It is kind of amazing.Americans are willing to buy housing made from Princesita Bonita/Pedasito/Bebita/Preciosa/Bonita<33 extremely cheap materials that will fall apart after only a couple Registered User decades, or at least require expensive repairs.Why?
When l was Joined: Wednesday, 9th of June 2010, 06:15:28 looking around to buy a house, the real estate agents kept trying to steer Posts: 500 me to these crappy wood-framed garbage houses that looked the same as Viewed 4988 times every house nearby, like they were all part of the same cheap
development.l demanded to know where the ''real'' houses with brick
architecture and sturdy roofing were located, and they tried to pretend
like such houses did not exist.
This was false; l eventually
found a house built back in 1925 with brick walls, a real wood stove, a
real basement and cellar, and so on.No inch-deep fake stone cladding -
this was the real stuff.After having it renovated and wired for high-speed
internet and putting in solar panels and a ground heat pump, the house was
ready to go, and at the same price as a cheapo McMansion in the distant
suburbs.
This is an EXTREMELY political question.Politics allowed
this to happen.Local zoning boards, all the way up to the federal
government giving tax breaks to builders and new housing developments./>
My question is, why, politically and socially, do Americans
tolerate this?A lot of this recent housing stock is ABYSMAL in quality.
Lulu Bird
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Thursday, 5th of August 2010 06:04:57 PM
They call the builders ''Hura'' is ala ''Hurry Up And Run Lulu Bird Away''. Registered User Joined: Wednesday, 12th of May 2010, 11:44:50 Another case of ''I don't care what happens, because I am going to build Posts: 1379 this, leave, then go on to build the next piece of junk because all I care Viewed 11677 times about is the money. Screw the poor slob who buys this.'' mentality.
Watch Holmes on Homes. A wonderful show depicting an honest, reputable
builder who fixes up dismal messes.
Papi
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Friday, 6th of August 2010 04:07:48 AM
I am similarly dismayed with the lack of taste & good judgment Papi Americans have when buying a house. Registered User Joined: Sunday, 16th of May 2010, 10:07:07 All those plastic McMansions sicken me. When I see them, I can not Posts: 1822 believe that anyone would be fooled into thinking they are living in a Viewed 6421 times substantive house. They are living in a phony shell. A lot of those
houses have thin walls, bad plumbing, & even the lawn is fake. They sold
off the topsoil that was there & substitued cheap fill. Hence, that sod
will have to be watered forever, because the roots will never get well
established in that rocky, sterile mess.
What really irritates me are the fake, non-working shutters. To me, they
are like a sign screaming, ''We're here to compensate for a complete lack
of architectural design & aesthetics.''
But these are the same people who shop at discount stores, see a Tommy
Hilfiger shirt for $20, & jump with joy for an ''outstanding bargain never
realizing that all the designers have several tiers of clothing, & the
garbage they just bought was the bottom of the barrel. The good stuff is
not sold at ur local TJ Maxx.
I used to know this girl in Chicago who was married to a very rich man.
They bought the Playboy coach house. When they renovated it, everything
was obviously just cheap imitation materials. There was nothing of
substance there; it was all for show. Nothing was real, except for the
marble countertops, which they somehow managed to make look like you were
in some cookie-cutter, mid-priced residential hotel. It was plastic &
sterile & boring.
Jake-a-saur
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Saturday, 7th of August 2010 07:56:09 PM
I am guessing the only possible answer is because you seem to Jake-a-saur be so much more intelligent than so many Americans. Registered User I mean honestly, I have no idea, I am just guessing. Joined: Sunday, 23rd of May 2010, 02:54:28 But based on all the stuff you say you did I can only guess you are just Posts: 284 vastly superior in every way to so many Americans. Viewed 3604 times Wouldn't you agree with this?
SnuggleMoo/Moo/Snuggy
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Sunday, 8th of August 2010 03:40:26 AM
Americans are conditioned to only look at the thin veneer of SnuggleMoo/Moo/Snuggy appearances not only in houses, but in other people as evidenced by the Registered User obsession with clothing thats trendy, plastic surgery, drinking the right Joined: Sunday, 16th of May 2010, 05:48:54 drinks, and following the same sports as everyone else. As with houses, Posts: 352 as long as the rot within is hidden, its OK. Viewed 11937 times
My Shexi Poodle
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Monday, 9th of August 2010 09:55:16 PM
People are much more mobile now days. They don't plan on, or My Shexi Poodle even desire to live in a house that is 20 years old or older. Everyone Registered User wants NEW, so they really don't consider how long there house will last Joined: Tuesday, 25th of May 2010, 17:48:35 because they know that they will be moving on after 7 or so years. Posts: 723 Viewed 11689 times
Sadly this is how a lot of people pick spouses. They don't plan on being
with them that long either.
Brat Sass
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Tuesday, 10th of August 2010 07:11:34 AM
I agree with the previous poster, your point/rant is ??? Brat Sass Registered User Joined: Sunday, 30th of May 2010, 14:52:09 Posts: 983 Viewed 9397 times
Miny Mouse
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Wednesday, 11th of August 2010 06:32:56 AM
You were lucky Miny Mouse They built houses cheap to get people into them Registered User and what you think is a wonderful property, others wouldn't get out of the Joined: Monday, 14th of June 2010, 13:08:27 car Posts: 803 Viewed 7451 times
honey bee.:)
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Thursday, 12th of August 2010 03:08:45 AM
and this is about politics. how? honey bee.:) Registered User Joined: Saturday, 8th of May 2010, 04:06:14 Posts: 1377 Viewed 19212 times
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