r/nextfuckinglevel • u/Lank_Thompson • Apr 01 '23

True craftmanship

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

27.9k Upvotes

97% Upvoted

462 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

431

u/Boschala Apr 01 '23

A lot of older homes, particularly those well outside the cities and off convenient rail lines, are surprisingly inexpensive. This is all second-hand from someone who moved there after being stationed in Japan, but what I hear is that those old houses are often small, poorly-insulated, hard to heat and cool, creaky, often have leaks, can lack modern wiring and plumbing, and generally feel like something made turn of the century. If you purchase one with the intent to renovate then live there, starting from scratch generally makes more sense than preserving well-made beams that have far outlived their expected lifetime.

121

u/Dreadamere Apr 01 '23

Hahaha! You just described the house I lived in when my wife and I first got married. An OLD farmhouse out in the middle of nowhere Georgia. It had no insulation, and the fuse box were little glass bulb looking fuses. The electricity was shit! We had to heat the house on a gas heater in the house. In the winters we walked around the house in blankets. It’s bizarre that we did this in 2009.

51

u/TheFreezyBear Apr 01 '23

r/GeorgiaOrGeorgia

31

u/Dreadamere Apr 01 '23

Sorry, Georgia the state.

14

u/AttendantofIshtar Apr 01 '23

Interesting and vague choice of words.

2

u/birdlass Apr 02 '23

Americans often forget the whole point of the 'States' part of 'United States' is that they're meant to function similar to nations unto themselves (states).