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Looking to make a major life change? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 58 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Japanese houses in particular are basically a consumable. They are designed for a very short lifetime compared to pretty much any other developed country.

The average wooden house there lasts 21 years.

[–] lesinge@sh.itjust.works 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol, I'll have to trust you on the source.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

Lol, yeah, I was trying to find a source for the average home age, and an article in English cited this as the official government statistics, which i thought would be more responsible to cite, even if I couldn't understand it. I did auto-translate it to double check, though.

[–] Delphia@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

I watched a video on this and while it does vary widely by prefecture one of the big reasons is their waste management/recycling rules.

Often, to demolish a house, theres usually a flat fee and its just bulldozed, put into a truck and dumped. To renovate, you have to dispose of every type of waste according to the class of that waste. Which is labour intensive and time consuming.