| pokoko said: Your conclusion is built on the fallacy that people always build cheap houses where the land is cheap. That's a false assumption. A lot of houses in the country-side are amazing and well-constructed. That's often because houses here are built on order rather than being constructed by a development company. Buying a house that was built to sell is a risk, especially compared to a house where you can check on the construction as it's happening. As far as expensive materials go, there is a point where you're no longer really paying for quality, but instead paying for luxury. |
I was making my assumption based on the linked huge cheap houses. As I said before a well constructed house in the US will cost alot aswell.
But a 7000 sqft house for 450k can not be the same quality as a house half that size for alot more.
I know that americans build high quality too. All I am saying is that you can't just dismiss everything in Europe as a rip off and not look at all the factors. We have cheap houses too but if they are not cheap there is a good reason for that even if they aren't bigger.
And to quality vs luxury yes there is a line but its subjective for everyone and you really have to pay alot before all you do is aesthetics improvement.
