Housing! USA vs UK!

[Mazty]

Netyaroze said:

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.

You are just presuming there is some sort of maximum price on how much land property will influence a value. You are wrong at every turn here buddy. I live in the UK and the housing here is shit - cold, damp and poor sound insulation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-19763791

It's much more to do with location than anything else.