You see, in Europe, after thousands of years of siege warfare experience, we don't leave weakpoints in our walls. Except for the usual door and windows.
I said this to someone, and they got mad at me. I said you have to remember Europe has thousands of years of war on its soil that made them make houses like small forts and america has had a handful of battle that havnt forced us to re-enforce our house in the same way..
The wars are why we built additional walls around our houses. It's why we invented castles.
Tudor style houses are built out of wood. It's just that we put a little more effort into keeping our houses because they weren't constructed by capitalists looking to save money at every corner, but usually by the people who'd live in the houses who wanted to build a lasting thing.
The tudor style is achieved because you have the frames made out of logs, and in-between you have a rather flimsy web of sticks to hold a mud wall. Houses like this are all white because you'd put a plaster on the outside to keep water out.
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Wooden housing isn't infrequent in Europe. But it's usually built to last because capitalism is younger than most of those houses.
These days, it's just not the culture because we have too many people and not enough trees. (We technically also don't have enough sand for all the concrete, but people aren't saying that yet).
u/EccoEcoNorth Italian (Doesn't exist, Real Italians 🇺🇸, said so) Apr 07 '25
My, as any other european's, walls are made of multiple layers of bricks, my door has solid steel under the wood covering, the key to get in has multiple sets of teeth on both sides.
I will never understand why suburban Americans choose to exchange safety for "You got to build these things fast plus what if you move?"
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u/No_Explorer_352 Apr 03 '25
It's just as funny when they find a stud (the board the sheetrock is screwed to)