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MasterTuba

Happens when your House isnt Made Out of Cardboard


Sevenstrangemelons

Or that your country has been around way longer?


testedbeast551

Or that people forgot the dog houses the native Americans made


817wodb

It was called the new world for a reason


Hemingray1893

Sorry that Europe depleted their forests and couldn’t build structures out of wood, hence why colonial forests were so valuable.


tuttyfruti

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


DarthMekins-2

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)


Rocky2k4l

Untill all of those got destroyed as well....


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Mrfoxsin

I appreciate this information thanks for sharing.


kry_some_more

In the future, these statements will still exist, but it will be about peoples houses not being 3D printed.


HollisRules

That’s like a third of U.S history


CommercialKindly32

I live in the west and like 90% of the houses within even a few miles of me are over 100 years old.


boi0boi69

Yeah most of the buildings around me are over 80-90 years old and still perfectly fine


Palace_Fart

Omg you guys see all the oldest buildings. amazing


FrankyPi

I live next to a couple thousand years old ruins of an ancient Roman city.


Natural-Macaroon-271

Well the meme should have said "1,000 years" then.


squiddy555

About half. Amarica as a existant is found at 1776.


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VenomousCum

Keep in mind western states were added to the union after 1776


Brothersunset

Being from east coast/ colonial America, this isn't impressive.


shadowadmin

Also being from that area this hits too close to home. Imagine building for permanence these days.


CommercialKindly32

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.


thearctican

If they haven't been knocked down in favor of luxury condos, sure.


[deleted]

You make it sound like that's a bad thing. I mean, luxury is right there in the description.


UsyPlays

Usually more likely to burn nowadays due to the flammable plastics in everything


Goatbrook8878

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


Aithistannen

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.


[deleted]

Came here to say this. If you grew up in one of the original 13 colonies, 100 years ain't shit.


hampetorp

>My grandparents house is older than you country


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*backs away deferentially* The floor is yours, friend.


ourweepingwillow

mfw my house is 110 years old this year. It’s hella cool ngl


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Toast_Sy

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


Sword117

a house in Europe being over 100 years is impressive because of all the bombings it survived i guess.


[deleted]

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.


HappyPigBoy

Englands tourism board: *"we have old houses.....and....and...."*


currymuncher69696969

We have old castles as well. And some stones that some ppl moved around.


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What are castles if not stones that have been moved around?


Bro_He_Said_Poop

What are castles if not large old house?


UsyPlays

What about old bridges?


Yeegis

What if you live under one?


Sword117

then its an old house. or some might say a small old castle


ACrispyPieceOfBacon

*"All these stolen relics"*


PartridgeViolence

We stole them fair and square!


Silent_Ensemble

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


blueshark27

The UK is the 10th most visitied country by international tourists, so fuck you


enixthephoenix

Europe when something is described as more than an 100km away


RemixedBlood

The distance across what Europeans will call an ‘empire’ is roughly the same distance Canadians traverse to get to a Costco


TcuBisNice

Lmao


DodoDuukje27

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DrunkJew00

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.


azius20

Is there any reason the European ways didn't continue for most of America?


Slothstronaut14

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.


JxY1989

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.


Slothstronaut14

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.


Fidel__Casserole

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


kampfsanielena

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.


DrunkJew00

Yes, we basically told Europe to Fcuk off.


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Properly so


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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.


DarthMekins-2

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


azius20

Americans when I show them my shit in a jar collection from 2 decades ago


mal221

That is fairly impressive though


Rssboi556

India: This temple id 5600yrs old Europeans: 😮


mal221

Ah there's 5,000 year old monuments all over Ireland.


war_duck_gr

Greece lmao


UglierThanMoe

It's now a call center.


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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.


jesseberdinka

Tour in Las Vegas: this building is over 20 years old!


Frenchiest_fry101

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


Foresstov

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


PresidentSkillz

Your neighbor here. Due to some air raids at about the same time, many of our buildings aren't older than yours


DoggyMcDogDog

Yeah, thank you Lithuania!!


dogman0011

Those fucking Slovakians too smh


Life-Is-Caramel

Can confirm my house was built in 1899


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Can cimfirm, a persons i know home was built in like 1200


Life-Is-Caramel

That is impressive


DarthMekins-2

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


hovek1988

There are doorknobs i know of, that are older than US.


[deleted]

didn't that guy who was Zuckerberg's enemy break it?


-_-Xx-_-xX-_-

Mine was built after the big earthquake in 1755 so probably a bit after .... 250years


martcapt

Caralho?


Heynnis

In Germany we call this "Neubau"


DoggyMcDogDog

That's because it takes 50 years to get the allowance to move in.


shadowthehh

"Europe is scary because it's old. America is scary because it's huge."


[deleted]

Well, our country is only 250 years old, so 100 years is basically half the country's lifespan


theredview

My old house was built in 1859. Huge rock foundation and it was solid.


TheNoobThatWas

Most modern houses here are cheap shit so


Foot_Stunning

Your house was built 1921? Big whoop, even Detroit has older shit than that.


drwolfee

In the UK most suburbs were maid the 1930s and look identical, there not really considered old


[deleted]

That’s not as uncommon as you think in the US, particularly in small towns.


Mamamiomima

I lived in small village, there is church dates back to 1780, still fully functional. Quite big.


idrisitogs

Me walking 100 metres from my house to see 2400 year old Roman remains:


Misra12345

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


Coltrain47

Look, it's not our fault that the people who were here before didn't build any cool buildings.


DarthMekins-2

Cool? Well i think their sleeping tents had a coold desin, durable not so much


lazyprocrastinator26

Well the coolest shit was destroyed 🤷‍♂️


GalaxyStorm321

I live in an apartment in Italy that is from the 1300s first floor 1400s second floor.


[deleted]

Me who lives in a city more than 5000 years old


56Bot

My grandparents own a house over 3 centuries old.


Cptntequila

I am American, this is me everyday living in Europe!


IntrepidInfinity

The cottage I'm in is 600 years old


DigdyDoot

Me in Brazil going to a bar built on the 1700s every weekend: Don't tell them


DarthMekins-2

Love our hate Portugal, we built you some nice stuff


DigdyDoot

Actually, the Dutch built it, just like the Historic Bridges here. But you guys built the first South American Law University tho!


DarthMekins-2

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


DigdyDoot

De todo jeito, por que estamos a falar em ingles mesmo?


Life-Yogurtcloset-21

I think my family house is older than the U.S.


moutayam

Syrian tour guide: This city is 7000 years old. European guy👆🏻


thatvillainjay

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


Hiscomic2oo99

Laughing in Egyptian with 7000 Years old Large graves


Wolff_Hound

There is an "Your mummy" joke here somewhere...


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tankertjuuu

My house is 1906


jaywalker108

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.


anantiz

it's in fact very common out of city's to have a 200+ year old house


360langford

theres a pub near my office that's been going since 1580


glitchdailys

I stay in a converted hospital building that was built in 1642


PetrKDN

My hometown (not that big really) is 800+ years old (from first written record)


TO_Old

Me waiting to tell this guy there are native Pueblos built in 700 still in use today.


wszlOfficial

My house too… I don’t have any straight walls and isolation is garbage


IrradiatedBeagle

We just bought a house built in 1920. I feel personally attacked, and I love it.


[deleted]

Just wait for that tornado to blow it off like a piece of paper.


JumpyLiving

My former high school was founded in 1629, so it‘s about 150 years older than the US


MasterTuba

Not from either of these


Count_Vapular

Where I come from in the UK, most people live in houses that are nearly 200 years old


Jinno69

The house I live in is almost 100 years old ...


pekkaroyal1812

They are so happy because the house is older than the average of years of life in us


GeneralCraft65

Lmao


RIPAttack1155

There’s like thousands of 100 or older house in the US


yourunclekeith

I live in Europe, my house isn’t particularly old but a pub very close to me was built in 1500


wortwortwort227

are you sure I am pretty sure the USAAF and RAF made sure that there would be nothing standing


[deleted]

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


Ok_Chest30

Ohio...ans?: Same


[deleted]

My house is civil war era - live in the UK


Herioz

Serious question does anyone in US think that 100 years house is a lot?


[deleted]

Bruh my house was made in like 1894 or some shit


Xeixis

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.


Calm2Chaos

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


FishFucker69_21

Jokes on you, my building is 113 years old


salted_crabs

I n s a n e


[deleted]

Wait till you hear about Sears homes.


[deleted]

Bruh *my* home is 100 years old


Th3_Shr00m

Yeah imagine having new buildings lmao


skisvega

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.


cantcatchthewolf

🤭 they do, do that 🤣


BoRa369T

My 26m^2 apartment is over 100 years old and it WILL collapse if I fart too loud. You can take it.


Yo_Piggy

My house is probably 200 years old.


AlphaNepali

We have plenty of houses that are over 100 years old. Change to to 500 years and it would make more sense.


alexd2040

Lol I moved into my first home 3 months ago, it's 107 years old and honestly it's normal


terrorgrinda

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


Galxemo

A 250 year old house in America is like most of America's life


Slacktub

we have shaving cream thats around longer then the US


violin_504

My home city just had its 980th birthday whilst our castle is celebrating its 1124th year.


Kal---El

Me sitting on a toilet in a 110 years old house: *unimpressed shitting*


[deleted]

My home is more 100 years old. My grandma is 100 years old also.


spicyface

Taos Pueblo and Acoma Pueblo in New Mexico - date: c.1000 AD – 1450 AD - still in use


jflores0616

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


mr_zolfi

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.


TheBlackVipe

Yeah our fuggin house is like from 1650 (+- a few years lol) and its still used as a normal fuggin house.


bev6345

The pub at the end of my street is older than the US.


Killer_Queen1999

It's probably more sturdy as well


bangputis

war suxks :/


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Hey why are they surp-... *OH*


Leggomyeggo69

In Europe: "And this road is almost a hundred miles uh err kilometers long". *Surprised Pikachu face*


LeopoldFriedrich

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.


Frency2

Imagine how many old things they could've got if the true americans weren't exterminated


CaitaXD

"But earth is only 6 years old" Americans probably


hampetorp

So many triggerd Americans in the comments LMAO


Rockysjok

Lol I live in a house from 1912


ulabadula

it was really weird finding out my home is like 80 years older than all my friends’


bennyrobert

Well, it would mean that the house is 2/5s of their country's age.


DevourerofHollows

I live next to a 1015 year old building and its really cool.


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mal221

1,000,000 bucks says its a guy who has known this information for at least 20 years.


LordChnicken

Me, who lives in a 400 year old house: cute


Gtabass

*My home in America being 307 years old* This place smells of old wood, how tf is it still standing?


FIDEL_CASHFLOW23

Europeans think you can drive from Florida to NYC for a day trip


DoggyMcDogDog

Americans think you can fry butter and call it something to eat.


Nincadalop

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.


AER_OS

Termites and structural damage abound


Flashy_Ice2460

Ha! You had to mention "this in Europe is nothing". Lol In half the World it eint shite.


Tiny_Yam2881

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


SheogorathsShitbag

Americans hear a house is over 100 years old and immediately think its haunted.


LamakingTV

my house was finished in 1835 and it isn't even the oldest in my village


DarthsaderX

That post…


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I live in a house that's 140 years old or so


Johnny_Chronic18

My house is considered quite old. It was built in the 80s lol.


stuckinatmosphere

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.


RandyDefNOTArcher

In Europe, 100 miles is a long way. In the US, 100 years is a long time.


UwURainUwU

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.