What Armenians should know about life in America (2014)

Re:What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) by Iv on Saturday April 04, 2020 @11:19AM (#22778728)

The difference in purchasing power comes from the difference in labor cost mainly. I think that in a construction project, labor costs are going to outweigh material costs by a lot. In such a case, it makes little sense to prefer cheap materials.

Maybe it has to do with competitions. Many old European houses are made of stone. New houses have to compare to that.

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Re:What Armenians should know about life in America (2014) by GordonS on Saturday April 04, 2020 @01:42PM (#22779947)

I considered getting a house designed and built here in the UK some years ago, and quickly found that the biggest cost wasn't labour, it was land.

Land anywhere you'd want to live, that has planning permission for buildings, is very expensive.

There is a lot less land in the UK than there is the US, and planning regulations can make things difficult.

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