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Houses are for living, not for speculation (en.wikipedia.org)

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[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I don't knock them for over production, but build quality is a more common problem that I saw. Also not a fan of not being able to own the apartment, but their availability is dope. Their public transit is also dope, both inter and intra city transit.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 20 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Take a look at the build quality of $500,000 homes that are being built in the US today. They are absolute shit with some sparkly trim that stays nice long enough to distract you until the warranty expires.

[–] bizzle@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

$500k house with shitty laminate floors and MDF trim lmfao spoiler alert it's because the builders only care about money, craftsmanship is dead.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

And that's more in line with the builds I saw over in China. I'm not defending our build quality (certainly not post 08 when a lot of construction companies went down or merged).

[–] Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

definitely way higher incidence of build quality issues than the US but at most they seem to be at least as rare as US car crashes

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 days ago

I dunno, it was almost an every building thing I saw. We had a floating ceiling grate collapse all along our walkway in the middle of the day. Big rusty snarled mess.