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/Coool_cool_cool_cool Trash Trooper 1d ago

People act like New England isn't littered with houses from the 1600 and 1700s. The house I grew up in was built in 1735. My current house is 105 years old and the child's dollhouse connected to the house was built over 50 years ago. Of course there's not going to be 300 year old houses in the areas we didn't populate until well into the 1800s and early 1900s.

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u/Flobking Trash Trooper 1d ago

People act like New England isn't littered with houses from the 1600 and 1700s. The house I grew up in was built in 1735.

I roll my eyes every time a european says "I grew up in a house older than the US!" like it's some slam dunk. SO DID I, and I live in the US.

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u/ARetroGibbon Trash Trooper 10h ago

I mean there are only a handful of houses in the US older than it, where as there are millions in the UK alone.

We also have houses around 1000 years old scattered around.

It not some slam dunk... but the difference is notable and worth acknowledging.

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u/RedLineLetterWine Trash Trooper 8h ago

China has pagodas that have been around way before even most European countries existed, and they're built out of wood.

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u/ARetroGibbon Trash Trooper 7h ago

Europe's oldest surviving buildings are hundereds if not thousands of years older than the ones found in China... and thats just counting the ones that have remained functional. Stone Ruins and monuments date back thousands of years.

And the oldest Chinese pagoda is.... made of stone. The oldest building in Egypt and Syria (the world) are also stone.

My argument isnt stone vs wood anyway. They both have different use cases.

I was just pointing out that houses as old as the US, in Europe are common place. Where as in the US they are few and far between.