Can someone explain why Europeans bitch and whine about American houses being made out of wood?

Can someone explain why Europeans bitch and whine about American houses being made out of wood?

What is their problem?

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Clumsiness

>what happen when I run directly into a wall, it break?? wood??

Come on, why would you want to live in a cardboard house lol?

wait, american houses are made of wood?
wtf

>American houses are made out of wood
>le first world nation face

Where do you think your forests went?

Cheap to rebuild if a tornado hits it. Won't crush you like a wall of bricks would.

The brick layer is there only for aesthetic reasons. Behind it is usually a wall of concrete. And it's stuck in the ground with deep foundation. So it won't go anywhere.

That's nice but if a tornado goes over it none of that matters. It's being destroyed.

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Because they're jealous of our incredibly low housing costs (outside of CA and NYC)

>mfw living in a wood-frame house built in 1903

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And if you get bugs your house will be destroyed.

But it looks nice

>he doesn't know what a window screen or exterminator is

We don't have dangerous tornadoes, but usually in a storm only unglued roof tiles can come off.

You have pussy storms in general tbqhwy

America also doesn't get Tornadoes outside of Tornado alley (though those that do occur within Tornado alley will tear your house up no matter how well its built, see ), which is why there are several brick buildings on the East and West Coasts.

Chicago has many wood-frame buildings because of its massive boom during the mid- to late-19th century (it is to this day the fastest a city has ever gone from 0 to a million people, if I'm not mistaken), so it was a lot cheaper to accommodate the increased demand with plentiful wood, even after the Great Fire. That being said, there are many brick buildings in Chicago as well, and it's roughly half and half, 2bh.

Here a lot of prefabricated houses are build. They just consist of concrete lego blocks that can be put down, stuck together and waterproofed in a day.

nobody cares geert

But I doubt tornadoes can go through the walls. They are usually reinforced with steel. But I do wish we could test it out.

Interesting

popularmechanics.com/adventure/outdoors/a6723/gone-in-four-seconds-how-a-tornado-destroys-a-house/

>With the roof gone, the walls are next. "Unless there are a lot of interior walls bracing and going into them, the [exterior walls] are flimsy and not well attached to each other at the corners," Reinhold says. Without a roof, an ordinary home becomes a house of cards in the face of a tornado.
But that's not the case when it's a concrete box. Especially not with lego houses.

youtube.com/watch?v=eOK-QoZ1NtE

>everywhere has tornados
Americans, everyone

It's a prank bro

>mfw living in a Victoria house built from stone and concrete
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he's not saying that, he's saying that in a tornado prone area, such as half of america's states, the house would not last, providing a valid reason as to why we build shitty homes

>mfw was in a comfy dorm built in the 1920s with private bathrooms for College last year
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>mfw the University sold that dorm off and is building a new complex without private bathrooms this year
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>mfw live in new uni building with private bathrooms

Most Americans live in wooden houses because of the urban flight after WW2 tbqh. All the soldiers came home and started families, then they left the cities. However, given that the US is so fucking huge and spread out, there weren't any houses. So they slapped up neighborhoods full of tract houses that could be built quickly and cheaply. This trend has continued to this day.

We just feel annoyed, but slightly smug that you live in such flimsy houses

Aoow :3