Longevity of modern construction?
In another thread (Are you happy you made TV your retirement home?) I saw a couple of comments that disturbed me, and raised an issue only tangentially related to that thread:
OBB wrote
I hate that people think a 20-year-old home is "old." I hate the mentality behind that. Again - where I come from - an "old" home was built prior to 1925, and there are thousands of them in the New England area that function just fine, are well-insulated, have withstood dozens of nor'easters, and are beautiful.
And JLB replied
As far as 20-year-old houses being "old", I hear you. But given that nobody builds great houses like they did 100 years ago (at least, for those that could afford it), even expensive houses of today age far more quickly than they should. We are in a throw-away world, sadly.
So let's talk about this. I live in a home built in 1950. Is construction of the 1990s or 2000s fundamentally inferior? What's this stuff about homes aging far more quickly?
Are preowned homes older than a few years bad? Can someone cite examples?
(Thanks to all who reply.)
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