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[quote=Anonymous]What a weirdly general question.

The older homes in the super high-end, expensive coastal Connecticut town where I grew up are just absolutely wonderful. Many of the homes in the country where I was born are literally centuries old and have been meticulously maintained. Our 1940’s Northern Va starter home? Totally different story. Thrown up quickly to accommodate the influx of government workers to the area during WWII. At the time, valuable building materials like copper were requisitioned for the war effort so every home in the development was plumbed with galvanized steel, which rusts and corrodes from the inside. Drain pipes were were literally made of soft terracotta, causing sewage to flood people’s yards when strong tree roots pushed through.

Think about literally any other category of stuff—cars, clothing, toys, novels, literally anything. There’s tons of creepy old sh*t out there, but also things that will always be classic and beautiful. Terrible faddish things, things that are worn down past their glory days, meticulously maintained things made of pure materials that reflect fine craftsmanship, things that reflect outdated ideas that can probably just disappear forever, things made of, or coated in, plastics, resins, paints that are degrading or otherwise toxic. Why would houses be any different[/quote]

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