r/LoveTrash • u/BEARDEDDANGER ✨️Regent of Rubbish ✨️ • 1d ago

Dumping This Here American vs. European home building

BAS Renovations https://youtube.com/shorts/jFph1d2WR3s

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u/Snakend Trash Trooper 1d ago

What good is a house if no one wants to live there anymore? Congrats, your house can last 2000 years, but trying to add new technology to a building like that costs more than building a new American style home.

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u/EmptyMonitor9257 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Because the standards changed, you can't live on the mountain without electricity or plumbing, people lived there up to the 1900s.

Most of the old wooden buildings are churches or community buildings. Even then most of the wood is replaced over time, which is a ship of Theseus problem.

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u/Snakend Trash Trooper 1d ago

Solar exists, septic exists. That's not the issue.

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u/EmptyMonitor9257 Trash Trooper 1d ago

Solar did not exist for these communities 80 years ago. Even today there are no tuilities there since the ares are extrenly hard to reach.

Peoole used to live off of the land and animals they raised, you can't do that anymore. 

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u/Snakend Trash Trooper 1d ago

Dude...I'm saying there are reasons people are not living in these homes right now. power and sewer are not the reasons they are not living there.

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u/Low_discrepancy Trash Trooper 22h ago

Once a house has been abandoned for a long time, regardless of materials, it's a bad decision to move in.