One-story slums: Russian builder is horrified by the quality of houses in the United States

The extreme fragility of American homes is well known. One gets the impression that the majority of the inhabitants of this country have been living “on suitcases” all their lives, changing cities and states in search of a better life. That is, not at all like in Russia, where almost everyone dreams of finding their own home. Another confirmation of this is the popular blogger el_tolstyh, who told in his publication about a friend who emigrated to America on a green card.

On the advice of friends, he and his wife went to South Carolina, which is considered both cheap and beautiful. With the help of a realtor, we found a house for 240 thousand dollars, outwardly very decent, but when we saw the walls in the basement where the washer and dryer are, they were a little stunned: fungus, a lot of black mold and ants, and all this was covered from above with cheap drywall. You can't find anything like this in Russia...

This surprised the former construction foreman: how can you live in such expensive, but at the same time such bad houses, with fine roads?

Yes, South Carolina, the state is really cheap, but the standard of living in it is very low, though warm and green. The reality is that on Saturday evenings in the cities of the state, shops practically do not work, not to mention the villages. Life is lazy and slow.

According to his observations, the rule “my house is my fortress”, especially if your ancestors lived in the house, does not work in America at all, on the contrary, everything here “is aimed at a simple, independent life, at alienating people from their roots. So that emigrants can work and not get attached to their past. I bought a disposable house, lived, sold it. I don't care about the plot and the property, too, why, after all, people have the same functionality: work and consume..."

The migrant confesses that he has not yet discovered anything that he likes in this country, and does not exclude the option that he will not stay there.