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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by jen20 on Friday August 25, 2023 @08:58AM (#37261182)
> Of course housing was both typically smaller and much more cheaply built in 1970

My experience (Texas) is that homes built today might be larger but are FAR worse quality than ones even built in the 90s, let alone the 70s or (heaven forbid) the 20s. In England the same was true but on a much more extreme curve, and without being larger.

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Re:America is building chip factories. Now to find the workers by K0balt on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:11PM (#37263372)
Interesting. May be regional I guess. Most of the homes I have been into the bones of in my area that were built in the 1970s were pretty crap.

But then again in my area the 1970s was a big boom time, with a ton of new construction. Mostly 2x4 and 2x6 construction, with cheap sheathing and a bad subfloor.

Anything built here in the 2000s will be 2x10 or 2x12 walls, double insulated sheathing, with triple pane windows and high r value doors, and with a floor you can confidently lay tile on.

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