On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 23:57:00 -0000, "IMM" wrote:


"Capitol" wrote in message
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Get into the real world. An American house is a short lived, upmarket
garden
shed! If it is in the right place; cf "The Heights" in Houston, then the
price is in the $1M region for a pile of CRAP.( because of the high land
costs).

US houses are better built than over here.

Have you seen one under construction? Some of the finishing may be
reasonable, but the basic construction is nothing to write home
about....




US houses are a disposable product, require massive
amounts of maintenance( decks every 5 years,
roofs every 20, boilers every 10) and have absolutely
CRAP electrical systems.

Total crap. They are not.

You're an electrical engineer now? US wiring practice is nothing
less than appalling and with extremely cheap and nasty fittings. Even
the expensive ones are only cosmetically better.




..andy

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