• LeroyJenkins@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    can’t tell if this is a troll or not. youre telling me people outside the states think we live in wet newspaper?

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      10 months ago

      Well not wet newspaper exactly but I heard you have walls so thin the neighbours can hear your cell division

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        10 months ago

        Depends on where you live. The US is huge and has a wide variety of building codes. I personally never hear my neighbors

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        10 months ago

        I mean it exists for sure, but not something people expect when moving in places. usually correlates to the cost and age. decibels wise, it’s not too different than Europe imo. I lived in France and mother fuckers be yelling from their windows all day. I also lived in Germany and the walls are thick as shit, but mother fuckers have their windows open all day and yodelling. if you live near people, you’ll hear them some way or another. renting in the US is also much simpler. fuck Germany’s renting culture shit.

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          10 months ago

          You’ve… you’ve never been out of your state, have you? 😂

          People don’t…shout at eachother out of windows! What sort of savage would do that?

          Oh, the ones in the movies you watched about Yurp. 😂

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      10 months ago

      Hitting a wall and having any chance of the wall breaking isn’t really a thing outside the US. Everyone elsewhere notices that a lot in movies and videos. It’s not uncommon for children outside America to ask adults why Americans have paper walls. People being mad and punching a wall and putting a fist-sized hole in it, falling and breaking the wall or throwing anything and the thing getting stuck in the wall. In most of the world it’s you or the thing hitting the wall that’ll break, not the wall itself.

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        10 months ago

        To clarify, the paper (and rock underneath it) are not the structural part of the house, they just cover the actual structural parts (the studs) and provide a pocket to fill with insulation.

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      10 months ago

      It’s an intentional exaggeration, but it’s true that houses in the US are usually built without a proper foundation and with thin walls.

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        10 months ago

        They’re built differently depending on where you live in the states and your environment. I know y’all love staying ignorant to feel superior but this one is still pretty dumb. People in Japan practically have paper walls and I don’t see you guys all up your snobby butts about that. Xenophobic turds. It would take people 10 seconds to learn why some of our houses are built the way they are but they won’t bother if they haven’t by now because they prefer the ignorance.

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          10 months ago

          You’re taking this a bit too seriously, man. It’s like when we joke about the British having fucked up teeth. Just ribbing each other.

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      10 months ago

      You know that tool called stud finder that you use in America if you ever think about hanging a picture on the wall, or a TV, otherwise you risk your wall falling down with anything attached to it?

      Never seen a stud finder in Europe.