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[quote=Anonymous]I think the reaction to "how houses are built here" is part of a typical reaction from some Europeans about U.S. "pragmatism".  When they see a house covered with Tyvek and then brick veneer, some of them may think "This is fake!" as they compare it to a centuries-old brick house back home.  Also,  U.S. construction gives a sense that "we build houses that will last 50+years because by then the new owner of the lot will tear down and rebuild new.  This might be a reasonably pragmatic approach , but some Europeans may find it bizarre -- "you are saying that you are building a home knowing that it will only be fine for 50 years?!?"

Which reminds me the reaction from an European friend regarding shutters.  He realized that most shutters in the area are decorative, not functional -- and, sadly, a majority of them are ugly vinyl ones.  He asked me, if those shutters don't work, why are they installing them?  I answered, just for decoration.  "For decoration?!?"  He just couldn't understand why on earth people would install shutters that purposely don't work when they could install shutters that do work as intended:  "isn't the point of having a shutter the ability of actually using them?"  After that conversation, whenever I am in Europe, I take a look at shutters around me and, indeed, I have never seen a purely "decorative" shutter that is not operable.  (By the way, operable shutters look much better than purely decorative ones, in my personal opinion)[/quote]

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