Why are american houses not build with stone?

Why not use stone instead of whatever shit you are using.

>>76203869
To live big on the cheap.

Using stone would be regarded as too much culture here

They consider it british imperialism to build houses out of material that can withstand a windy day

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>>76203869
Because wooden homes are a lot nicer.

>>76203869
they sometimes are

Because if their houses got any heavier than now they would sink into the ground the moment an average American tries to step in

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>>76204631

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>>76204631

It's cheaper

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>>76204631
>the only thing keeping their houses from flying away in a tornado are the americans inside holding it down

>>76204631
delete

>>76204631
you paid back for 2 nukes bro

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>>76204631
>>76208080

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>>76204631

>>76203869
I unironically love american style houses
>>76204631
how can burgers even recover?

>>76203990
>still use miles and pounds

>>76208080
so basically they become obese as safety measures against flying houses?

finally it makes sense

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>>76204631

>>76204444
quads of 4 checked

comfy

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>>76208397
Why didnt they told us?

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>>76204631
Jap brings the bantz

>>76203904
prob this tbqhwith you all

>>76203869
It's cheap. Americans are much more transient than Euros. You can see the same thing in the Canadian Prairies

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>visit an ameritard house
>carpet floor everywhere

>>76203898
Stone is extremely expensive, heavy and requires far more specialisation to properly use for building houses than wood and steel involve. It would skyrocket the price of housing.

>>76204631
(藁

>>76211866
Must be strange for a Russian to go into a house where the carpets are on the floor and not hung on the walls.

>>76204631
www

>>76212321
Must be strange for an auscuck to see a flag with no other countries flag on it

>>76212525
Not even relevant, try harder. Go on, you can do it.

>>76212594
Yes it is, you inbred abo

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>>76203898
Houses prices are gonna be 3 times more expansive at least.

>>76204444
Plus, it doesn't take much time to build.

>>76213629
HAHAHHAHAHSHA
Get a mudhut you fucking shit

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>>76203869
lets see how much I can compress this.

A combination of things made wood homes very very cheap, lots of wood, new saw blades, French wire nails, ...
Later safety codes made to fix growing issues with newer mostly wooden homes were politically modified to all but ban non-wooden homes
Modern wood is about 3 to 4 times weaker then the old wood used in original planning thanks to over harvesting old trees, a fact often not adjusted for in modern design
Safety codes, lack of alternative industry scales and other cost prices out many alternatives or sensible impotents in wood
So stone and stuff just cost several times more
Longer version, still way shorter given my research doesn't fit here

The USA started with fast expansion, so the speed of construction was a big deal to survive the winters. Also lots of trees like old Europe before the Romans over harvested. Invention of new saw blades made wood prices drop to near nothing compared to others. New nail manufacturing lowered the skill needed to build wooden buildings. A rash of safety issues following this promoted the introduction of many early building codes, mostly around wooden building which had the most safety issues thus studied more. Fast forward to WWII USA needed a quick cheap semi-permanent base model, the result was a newer cheaper wooden building rated to last 3 years which became widely used. These techniques were quickly adapted to other applications including homes and the rebuilding of Europe. New financing, fast super cheap low skilled wooden construction and other thing led to a building boom. This followed a renewal in safety issues, during this revision even more pro-wood politics affected how the codes were made. Now instead of favoring wood, they all but banned anything else, ironically under the issue of safety.

Some of this gets silly like "insufficient" studies to show brick or stone met fire safety requirements were common arguments, still cited today.

Does that help?

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>>76213752
Go back to your cave Vladimir.

>>76214096
Eat shit trailer park trash

>>76214096
looks like minecraft
>>76214215
calm down Ivan

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>>76214215
Commiblock now

why are slavshits so bad at bant

>>76203869
In the northeast, at least, it's because of stony soil and cold winters. When it freezes and thaws, the rock in the soil move upwards and crack masonry.

>>76203869
They're poor

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>>76214488
It's minecraft in 4K.

>>76213834
An actual answer? pretty good

Also in many parts of the West Coast there is danger of earthquakes. Brick buildings require a lot more work to survive. Or so I've been told. The East and South have more brick.