The thing that absolutely blows my mind when watching his content is how a lot of American homes are made out of a wood frame, foam, chicken wire, and plaster.

I would have thought that regions that don’t have winter weather would just cheap out on insulation, but they cheap out on the whole thing.

It got me thinking that the mere existence of winter weather kind of sets a minimum standard of quality.

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Freedom2 6 hours ago | parent [-]

I once asked a colleague why this was the case, and the responses I got were basically "Wood is cheap, durable and we have lots of it. Other materials will price houses out of most Americans and there's no tangible benefit to using them anyway."

Which is both wrong and short sighted, but I could not get them to budge on acknowledging that other materials would actually be better for houses than wood and some foam.

You can actually search around on the Internet for this query as well and American stubbornness (/ exceptionalism?) once again rears it's head.

	▲	BostonFern 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		If this comment is an indication of how you approached the conversation, maybe you failed to convince your colleague due to a lack of specific arguments and an abundance of scornful conceit.
	▲	Waterluvian 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The weird thing about these foam and chicken coop wire homes is that they’re not cheap at all anyways. All the CyFy ones are ridiculously priced. Largely because you’re not buying a home, you’re buying a location (with a cheap home on it.)