I remember watching an epide on swedens "room service" they re-do poeple rooms.
Anyway they went to the states to Henrik Zetterberg (detroit red wings) hes super super supe rich, and had bought a expensive ass house.
Anyway, they were going to re-do one room, and they couldnt believe the crappy quality of the house, floor was leaning, walls were crooked wires were done in a horrible manner,
And this is on a multi million dollar house. (the house looked Amazing btw)
I just thought it was hillarious.
Sure does seem to be alot cheapernin usa. maby worse quality also?
a lot of times you're not looking a t one individual house being built poorly, its a whole 'neighborhood'
a builder has so many acres to fill up, squeezes as many houses on as he can, cuts corners, uses low quality material and hardware for things like doors, windows, etc.
all this increases his profit margin. the dumb shit that buys it usually has to spend thousands more to make it livable - even if he wanted things done better when the house is being built (and was willing to pay accordingly) he would be told no.
sometimes people buy the house and just knock it down and start over.
sad state of affairs