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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You want actual hardwood floors there's nothing stopping you from paying for them?

LVP costs $4 per square foot. Hardwood is $10 per square foot.[/quote]

And LVP is awful for the environment. If people rip it out, it’s even more wasteful. It’s so gross.[/quote]

Oh please. That's such an annoying classist thing to say. Are you saying the same to the wealthy folks who are tearing out perfectly serviceable kitchens in order to put in fancier stuff?
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Or even worse, tearing down perfectly good 50 year old homes to build their monstrosities.[/quote]

As the former owner of one of these homes, I can tell you that the internal systems of these houses are breaking down, especially the mass-produced 1950s neighborhoods and even with good routine maintenance.  We discovered a year after moving in that the sewer pipe was only open 1/2" due to 60 years of debris sticking to rough cast iron pipe walls and that scoping it only opened it to 5/8".  The sewage pipe was run under the entire length of cement basement floor (which had installed flooring), so replacing it would have required destroying the basement.  The fireplace needed to be fully relined in order for us to use it (way down the priority list, never done).  While we were there, we had to pier a sinking foundation, replace the windows and doors (very bad leaks), blow in insulation (still had original 1950s shredded newspaper insulation).  It was a wonderful house while we were there, but it's useful lifespan was ending and it was starting to cost more to keep it habitable than made sense.  Had gorgeous hardwoods, though - refinished them before we moved in and they looked incredible.

We looked at rebuilding on our own lot, but we only wanted a house about half the size of the usual build... and it cost just as much as a McMansion and tanked the resale value.  Just wasn't worth it, so we moved into a house that was 20 years newer but the size we wanted.[/quote]

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