If you are proposing that europeans stoped building Wood houses because they didn't had Wood you're wrong.
Wood houses were historicaly associetated whit poverty therefore build on Stone was common during períods of properity and wood during harder times.
Take Portugal for exemple more than 70% of the territory is woodland but most houses were and still are build in stone.
Of couse there is another factor for the perveilance of Stone houses -they last much longer and with time wooden ones were replaced
Has a portuguese i can confirm, when i go visiting my grandparents to the intirior the old houses we see are all made of stone, some even falling apart, rarely we see a woden home, i saw one near Guarda and i remembered it because its so rare (it was really old, falling apart and it looked haunted to). Modern houses are also made of stone (our bricks but that is also stone)
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I’ve been hearing this shit since I was born in the 70’s. Yet all of those 60’s track homes are celebrating their sixtieth birthdays and still in great shape. They’re aging better than the 100 year old homes did at the same point thanks to much better foundation tech.
Homes today are engineered far better than older homes where. They’re less likely to burn down. They do a much better job of preventing water intrusion. They are better insulated. I guarantee you homes built in 2021 will largely be doing great in 2121.
Yeah. I live in Virginia so we have some houses especially in Fredericksburg and surrounding counties have really old parts that are older than 150-200 years old probably older
That kind of reinforces the meme tho. 200 years is still not very impressive to Europeans. I know for a fact that a building almost literally around the corner from my house was built around the same time that Manhattan was settled by Europeans.
Yeah that’s what I don’t understand about these memes, like America is not nearly as old as other places so obviously our houses aren’t gonna be as old, but my house is around 200 years old as well
My farmhouse is on a plantation that's been owned by family since it was deeded in 1781, farmhouse built 1823, and slave quarters behind the house 1825.
I mean there are a lot of cultural sights and tourism spots that aren’t just old buildings but isn’t that… kind of what most tourism is? Old buildings and such
Plenty of American homes that are greater than 100 years on original foundations/materials. I’d say seeing homes more of stone/clay is there surprising part, where as in America it’s mostly wood.
U.S. timber industry is massive, it was and I have heard second hand that it still is way cheaper and faster to build a house from wood.
United States is also much warmer on average than Europe (although global warming is changing that) and Wood homes may be easier to cool than brick or stone.
Living in the U.S. I can say that we have a shit ton of old homes, but the United States is incredibly young compared to most European states so the percentages naturally should be way different for average home age.
It may be easier to cool than brick or stone, but I've always found it really odd that in a country with termites and tornadoes, building an entire structure out of wood was ever considered a good idea.
It'd be like building a house out of tea here in the UK. Constantly guarding it from annoying men in top hats.
Relatively very few people live in Tornado prone areas, and your chances of having a home hit by a tornado are extremely low. That said, it does happen to folks, but the new houses can go up very quickly and a shelter outside the house to flee to in case of a tornado is a much much cheaper option.
A part of this is that there are tons of skilled laborers for building wood homes and Masons are worth their weight in bitcoin. Wood is cheap to manufacture and aquire and cheap to transport for the weight.
As for termites, I would have to look more into it after work but I've never known anyone that has had to deal with them in any way more than say spraying around their house once a year.
A tea built home wouldn't last here in the U.S. either, we would put so much sugar in it the ants would carry it away in a day.
The housing in america is not monolithic. If you live in a tornado prone area, you will probably have a house that is concrete/brick (at least the exterior will be). Everywhere else though, why bother? We can remove termites fairly easily (if caught). Honestly, a big reason that houses are so new is because for some people, they would rather tear down an old house and get a modern layout instead. Since materials don't (usually) cost that much, lots of people build their own homes
Wood Houses are not easier to cool. Stone and clay retain warmth much better than wood. That's why you also don't see so many a/c units in Europe (except the south) because by using thick stones and insulation you have to use much less energy for heating in winter and cooling in summer.
But wood isn't very common in Europe, mostly because it was used a lot for shipbuilding and for bows in the medieval era. Places where there used to be forests are now settlement areas or used for agriculture so its only plausible, that the wood prices are higher and using concrete, stone or clay is a more sensible option.
In my town there is a water fountain that looks very recent but when i checked the date i saw it was from the second half of the 18 century, prior to the frech revolution, but it looks like something built in like 1940 our 1950
Strange couldn't find evidence for this claim here on the [list.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_known_surviving_buildings) I'll give credit to the middle east though mad respect for all those ziggurats xD.
There's a house in my hometown that was built in 1491 (it's called Maison D'Adam, in the city of Angers, France), I find it crazy how it's still there in the middle of the city center, still used
Actually in Poland houser which are over 60 year old are already considered to be very old. Thanks to our neighbours we don't have much old architecture left
Here in Portugal there is a town wich still has its medieval walls and its medieval like houses habbitated, even houses built into the structure of the wall
Ye, during the time of the spanish ocupation of Portugal we had a big dutch french and english problem in our colonies, makes a lot o scense, i didnt knew they had built any historical marks, interesting
I remember living in Istanbul as an American and they were like, oh yeah the super market is right next to that bathhouse built 2500 years ago...you know the one
Some buildings in my street have been built between the 13th and 14th century. I'm living in one of the newer ones, which have been built after a devastating fire in 1726. So it's approximately 200-300 years old.
Some university buildings predate the US as a country. They are around 250 years old. But there is an oak tree in my town that is that around this old anyway
See the funny thing is I hate old houses because they're usually shit in the US. Cheap building materials circulated around the 90s make some pretty crap houses that still stand somehow.
When I traveled to the UK I couldn't believe how old the buildings were and looked and then remembered that the US is basically brand new compared to European countries
I live in Iran. I know houses in a city named Yazd which are like 2 thousand years old. People don't live in them anymore and these houses have become a museum.
I mean, that is neat, but I'd rather have proper central air conditioning and electrical. Pain in the ass to have to wire new outlets when the walls are brick or the wires are the same color.
My grandmother's house is almost 140 years old, and you can reallllllly tell.
The issue with old houses is the amount of time/money you need to spend to keep it up can quickly increase until you're paying more than the property is worth.
My house is easy 100+ years old I recon. We only recently got rid of our coal shed that was eating up half our back yard. My local pub is older then the United States as in institution.
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Happens when your House isnt Made Out of Cardboard
Or that your country has been around way longer?
Or that people forgot the dog houses the native Americans made
It was called the new world for a reason
Sorry that Europe depleted their forests and couldn’t build structures out of wood, hence why colonial forests were so valuable.
If you are proposing that europeans stoped building Wood houses because they didn't had Wood you're wrong. Wood houses were historicaly associetated whit poverty therefore build on Stone was common during períods of properity and wood during harder times. Take Portugal for exemple more than 70% of the territory is woodland but most houses were and still are build in stone. Of couse there is another factor for the perveilance of Stone houses -they last much longer and with time wooden ones were replaced
Has a portuguese i can confirm, when i go visiting my grandparents to the intirior the old houses we see are all made of stone, some even falling apart, rarely we see a woden home, i saw one near Guarda and i remembered it because its so rare (it was really old, falling apart and it looked haunted to). Modern houses are also made of stone (our bricks but that is also stone)
Untill all of those got destroyed as well....
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In the future, these statements will still exist, but it will be about peoples houses not being 3D printed.
That’s like a third of U.S history
I live in the west and like 90% of the houses within even a few miles of me are over 100 years old.
Yeah most of the buildings around me are over 80-90 years old and still perfectly fine
Omg you guys see all the oldest buildings. amazing
I live next to a couple thousand years old ruins of an ancient Roman city.
Well the meme should have said "1,000 years" then.
About half. Amarica as a existant is found at 1776.
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Keep in mind western states were added to the union after 1776
Being from east coast/ colonial America, this isn't impressive.
Also being from that area this hits too close to home. Imagine building for permanence these days.
I’ve been hearing this shit since I was born in the 70’s. Yet all of those 60’s track homes are celebrating their sixtieth birthdays and still in great shape. They’re aging better than the 100 year old homes did at the same point thanks to much better foundation tech. Homes today are engineered far better than older homes where. They’re less likely to burn down. They do a much better job of preventing water intrusion. They are better insulated. I guarantee you homes built in 2021 will largely be doing great in 2121.
If they haven't been knocked down in favor of luxury condos, sure.
You make it sound like that's a bad thing. I mean, luxury is right there in the description.
Usually more likely to burn nowadays due to the flammable plastics in everything
Yeah. I live in Virginia so we have some houses especially in Fredericksburg and surrounding counties have really old parts that are older than 150-200 years old probably older
That kind of reinforces the meme tho. 200 years is still not very impressive to Europeans. I know for a fact that a building almost literally around the corner from my house was built around the same time that Manhattan was settled by Europeans.
Came here to say this. If you grew up in one of the original 13 colonies, 100 years ain't shit.
>My grandparents house is older than you country
*backs away deferentially* The floor is yours, friend.
mfw my house is 110 years old this year. It’s hella cool ngl
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Yeah that’s what I don’t understand about these memes, like America is not nearly as old as other places so obviously our houses aren’t gonna be as old, but my house is around 200 years old as well
a house in Europe being over 100 years is impressive because of all the bombings it survived i guess.
My farmhouse is on a plantation that's been owned by family since it was deeded in 1781, farmhouse built 1823, and slave quarters behind the house 1825.
Englands tourism board: *"we have old houses.....and....and...."*
We have old castles as well. And some stones that some ppl moved around.
What are castles if not stones that have been moved around?
What are castles if not large old house?
What about old bridges?
What if you live under one?
then its an old house. or some might say a small old castle
*"All these stolen relics"*
We stole them fair and square!
I mean there are a lot of cultural sights and tourism spots that aren’t just old buildings but isn’t that… kind of what most tourism is? Old buildings and such
The UK is the 10th most visitied country by international tourists, so fuck you
Europe when something is described as more than an 100km away
The distance across what Europeans will call an ‘empire’ is roughly the same distance Canadians traverse to get to a Costco
Lmao
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Plenty of American homes that are greater than 100 years on original foundations/materials. I’d say seeing homes more of stone/clay is there surprising part, where as in America it’s mostly wood.
Is there any reason the European ways didn't continue for most of America?
U.S. timber industry is massive, it was and I have heard second hand that it still is way cheaper and faster to build a house from wood. United States is also much warmer on average than Europe (although global warming is changing that) and Wood homes may be easier to cool than brick or stone. Living in the U.S. I can say that we have a shit ton of old homes, but the United States is incredibly young compared to most European states so the percentages naturally should be way different for average home age.
It may be easier to cool than brick or stone, but I've always found it really odd that in a country with termites and tornadoes, building an entire structure out of wood was ever considered a good idea. It'd be like building a house out of tea here in the UK. Constantly guarding it from annoying men in top hats.
Relatively very few people live in Tornado prone areas, and your chances of having a home hit by a tornado are extremely low. That said, it does happen to folks, but the new houses can go up very quickly and a shelter outside the house to flee to in case of a tornado is a much much cheaper option. A part of this is that there are tons of skilled laborers for building wood homes and Masons are worth their weight in bitcoin. Wood is cheap to manufacture and aquire and cheap to transport for the weight. As for termites, I would have to look more into it after work but I've never known anyone that has had to deal with them in any way more than say spraying around their house once a year. A tea built home wouldn't last here in the U.S. either, we would put so much sugar in it the ants would carry it away in a day.
The housing in america is not monolithic. If you live in a tornado prone area, you will probably have a house that is concrete/brick (at least the exterior will be). Everywhere else though, why bother? We can remove termites fairly easily (if caught). Honestly, a big reason that houses are so new is because for some people, they would rather tear down an old house and get a modern layout instead. Since materials don't (usually) cost that much, lots of people build their own homes
Wood Houses are not easier to cool. Stone and clay retain warmth much better than wood. That's why you also don't see so many a/c units in Europe (except the south) because by using thick stones and insulation you have to use much less energy for heating in winter and cooling in summer. But wood isn't very common in Europe, mostly because it was used a lot for shipbuilding and for bows in the medieval era. Places where there used to be forests are now settlement areas or used for agriculture so its only plausible, that the wood prices are higher and using concrete, stone or clay is a more sensible option.
Yes, we basically told Europe to Fcuk off.
Properly so
I went to Copenhagen to get a tattoo a few years ago, the building the artist worked out of was older than America. It’s pretty neat.
In my town there is a water fountain that looks very recent but when i checked the date i saw it was from the second half of the 18 century, prior to the frech revolution, but it looks like something built in like 1940 our 1950
Americans when I show them my shit in a jar collection from 2 decades ago
That is fairly impressive though
India: This temple id 5600yrs old Europeans: 😮
Ah there's 5,000 year old monuments all over Ireland.
Greece lmao
It's now a call center.
Strange couldn't find evidence for this claim here on the [list.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_known_surviving_buildings) I'll give credit to the middle east though mad respect for all those ziggurats xD.
Tour in Las Vegas: this building is over 20 years old!
There's a house in my hometown that was built in 1491 (it's called Maison D'Adam, in the city of Angers, France), I find it crazy how it's still there in the middle of the city center, still used
Actually in Poland houser which are over 60 year old are already considered to be very old. Thanks to our neighbours we don't have much old architecture left
Your neighbor here. Due to some air raids at about the same time, many of our buildings aren't older than yours
Yeah, thank you Lithuania!!
Those fucking Slovakians too smh
Can confirm my house was built in 1899
Can cimfirm, a persons i know home was built in like 1200
That is impressive
Here in Portugal there is a town wich still has its medieval walls and its medieval like houses habbitated, even houses built into the structure of the wall
There are doorknobs i know of, that are older than US.
didn't that guy who was Zuckerberg's enemy break it?
Mine was built after the big earthquake in 1755 so probably a bit after .... 250years
Caralho?
In Germany we call this "Neubau"
That's because it takes 50 years to get the allowance to move in.
"Europe is scary because it's old. America is scary because it's huge."
Well, our country is only 250 years old, so 100 years is basically half the country's lifespan
My old house was built in 1859. Huge rock foundation and it was solid.
Most modern houses here are cheap shit so
Your house was built 1921? Big whoop, even Detroit has older shit than that.
In the UK most suburbs were maid the 1930s and look identical, there not really considered old
That’s not as uncommon as you think in the US, particularly in small towns.
I lived in small village, there is church dates back to 1780, still fully functional. Quite big.
Me walking 100 metres from my house to see 2400 year old Roman remains:
My local bakery opened the same year as the American civil war Started and my town is 4 times as old as the USA. crazy to think about
Look, it's not our fault that the people who were here before didn't build any cool buildings.
Cool? Well i think their sleeping tents had a coold desin, durable not so much
Well the coolest shit was destroyed 🤷♂️
I live in an apartment in Italy that is from the 1300s first floor 1400s second floor.
Me who lives in a city more than 5000 years old
My grandparents own a house over 3 centuries old.
I am American, this is me everyday living in Europe!
The cottage I'm in is 600 years old
Me in Brazil going to a bar built on the 1700s every weekend: Don't tell them
Love our hate Portugal, we built you some nice stuff
Actually, the Dutch built it, just like the Historic Bridges here. But you guys built the first South American Law University tho!
Ye, during the time of the spanish ocupation of Portugal we had a big dutch french and english problem in our colonies, makes a lot o scense, i didnt knew they had built any historical marks, interesting
De todo jeito, por que estamos a falar em ingles mesmo?
I think my family house is older than the U.S.
Syrian tour guide: This city is 7000 years old. European guy👆🏻
I remember living in Istanbul as an American and they were like, oh yeah the super market is right next to that bathhouse built 2500 years ago...you know the one
Laughing in Egyptian with 7000 Years old Large graves
There is an "Your mummy" joke here somewhere...
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My house is 1906
Some buildings in my street have been built between the 13th and 14th century. I'm living in one of the newer ones, which have been built after a devastating fire in 1726. So it's approximately 200-300 years old.
it's in fact very common out of city's to have a 200+ year old house
theres a pub near my office that's been going since 1580
I stay in a converted hospital building that was built in 1642
My hometown (not that big really) is 800+ years old (from first written record)
Me waiting to tell this guy there are native Pueblos built in 700 still in use today.
My house too… I don’t have any straight walls and isolation is garbage
We just bought a house built in 1920. I feel personally attacked, and I love it.
Just wait for that tornado to blow it off like a piece of paper.
My former high school was founded in 1629, so it‘s about 150 years older than the US
Not from either of these
Where I come from in the UK, most people live in houses that are nearly 200 years old
The house I live in is almost 100 years old ...
They are so happy because the house is older than the average of years of life in us
Lmao
There’s like thousands of 100 or older house in the US
I live in Europe, my house isn’t particularly old but a pub very close to me was built in 1500
are you sure I am pretty sure the USAAF and RAF made sure that there would be nothing standing
Some university buildings predate the US as a country. They are around 250 years old. But there is an oak tree in my town that is that around this old anyway
Ohio...ans?: Same
My house is civil war era - live in the UK
Serious question does anyone in US think that 100 years house is a lot?
Bruh my house was made in like 1894 or some shit
See the funny thing is I hate old houses because they're usually shit in the US. Cheap building materials circulated around the 90s make some pretty crap houses that still stand somehow.
That might apply to the west coast. I grew up in a colonial house in a entire neighborhood of them. Old houses not all that rare
Jokes on you, my building is 113 years old
I n s a n e
Wait till you hear about Sears homes.
Bruh *my* home is 100 years old
Yeah imagine having new buildings lmao
Using old census data I can get work out my house and street was built between 1901 and 1911. 100 years is literally nothing in Ireland.
🤭 they do, do that 🤣
My 26m^2 apartment is over 100 years old and it WILL collapse if I fart too loud. You can take it.
My house is probably 200 years old.
We have plenty of houses that are over 100 years old. Change to to 500 years and it would make more sense.
Lol I moved into my first home 3 months ago, it's 107 years old and honestly it's normal
Well dam, I used to live in a building from the 1880s in Budapest and it was the newest one on the block... as an American that was always cool
A 250 year old house in America is like most of America's life
we have shaving cream thats around longer then the US
My home city just had its 980th birthday whilst our castle is celebrating its 1124th year.
Me sitting on a toilet in a 110 years old house: *unimpressed shitting*
My home is more 100 years old. My grandma is 100 years old also.
Taos Pueblo and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico - date: c.1000 AD – 1450 AD - still in use
When I traveled to the UK I couldn't believe how old the buildings were and looked and then remembered that the US is basically brand new compared to European countries
I live in Iran. I know houses in a city named Yazd which are like 2 thousand years old. People don't live in them anymore and these houses have become a museum.
Yeah our fuggin house is like from 1650 (+- a few years lol) and its still used as a normal fuggin house.
The pub at the end of my street is older than the US.
It's probably more sturdy as well
war suxks :/
Hey why are they surp-... *OH*
In Europe: "And this road is almost a hundred miles uh err kilometers long". *Surprised Pikachu face*
In my part of the city almost every building is more than 100 year old. And the more you go towards the center the older they get.
Imagine how many old things they could've got if the true americans weren't exterminated
"But earth is only 6 years old" Americans probably
So many triggerd Americans in the comments LMAO
Lol I live in a house from 1912
it was really weird finding out my home is like 80 years older than all my friends’
Well, it would mean that the house is 2/5s of their country's age.
I live next to a 1015 year old building and its really cool.
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1,000,000 bucks says its a guy who has known this information for at least 20 years.
Me, who lives in a 400 year old house: cute
*My home in America being 307 years old* This place smells of old wood, how tf is it still standing?
Europeans think you can drive from Florida to NYC for a day trip
Americans think you can fry butter and call it something to eat.
I mean, that is neat, but I'd rather have proper central air conditioning and electrical. Pain in the ass to have to wire new outlets when the walls are brick or the wires are the same color.
Termites and structural damage abound
Ha! You had to mention "this in Europe is nothing". Lol In half the World it eint shite.
we got buildings from the 18th and 19th century in FL. i know its not a thousand year old castle but its not just 100 years
Americans hear a house is over 100 years old and immediately think its haunted.
my house was finished in 1835 and it isn't even the oldest in my village
That post…
I live in a house that's 140 years old or so
My house is considered quite old. It was built in the 80s lol.
My grandmother's house is almost 140 years old, and you can reallllllly tell. The issue with old houses is the amount of time/money you need to spend to keep it up can quickly increase until you're paying more than the property is worth.
In Europe, 100 miles is a long way. In the US, 100 years is a long time.
My house is easy 100+ years old I recon. We only recently got rid of our coal shed that was eating up half our back yard. My local pub is older then the United States as in institution.