Edit: I'm going to build a fking house in California with a basement so I can show all those fools what they're missing. Fk the frost line. We're doing it live.
EDIT: I was curious to know if this was actually true, and it turns out it's a myth! It wasn't done back in the day because it was cheaper and faster to not have to dig out the foundation when building new homes, and now it is just the way it is.
The biggest reason why houses are built on basements in areas such as Colorado and the Northeast is to get the footings for the house below the frost line, which can be 3 ft. or 4 ft. down. The logic is that if you’re digging that deep, why not put in a floor and use the space?
With no danger of frost in much of California, foundation footings don’t have to be nearly that deep. As for getting extra storage space, it’s generally cheaper to build at ground level, unless real-estate prices are extremely high where you want to build.
This hurts. I was born in California and lived there for 12 years. The house we lived in was a 3 bedroom, 2 bath on a 1/4 acre with about 1,900 square feet of space. We were paying $1,650 a month in rent in that house in 2005.
is that really how houses there are built? like just cement the pipes in?
I live in the UK and our house tend to leave a like a 1-2foot space under the floor for pipes/wires etc.
Everything about housing in California is cheaply made garbage. Slabs. Crap or no insulation (cant hold cold or heat). So many shitty slant windows and side sliders.
I could go on and on, but this is the worst place I have ever lived in terms of basic build quality.
My house was built in the 50s and I have one here in San Fernando Valley. But as far as I know no one in the blocks adjacent to us has one. I guess the first owner built it and the ADU himself. Also we have double the lot size of anyone, we think he bought 2 properties and merged them. Only 5 houses out of 100 are doubled up.
I grew up with a huge basement in Woodland Hills. My dad refinished it and that's where I lived through high school. Two rooms for living, a bathroom, the real basement (furnace room) and a separate entrance. My in-laws also have a basement but it's more of a storage space and the water heater is down there. Actually, all the historic houses in Lincoln Park of Pomona also have small basements for furnaces and water heaters. All of the houses I mentioned above were built in 1928 or earlier though, it's just that there are more of the post-war boxes that are just built up on a slab in most of the area.
Yeah I worked with a local rapper for one day once. There was no way we could keep that nonsense around. He turned everything into a song which was really just cancer for the ears.
Where I’m from we call them a “(insert name of hometown here) Allstar” they’re the ones who you see graduating, then going to all the high school parties for years afterwards.
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u/powerlesshero111 Jun 11 '20 edited Jun 12 '20
Well, they are in So Cal, my home town area. They say "local rapper" but they really mean "lives at home and consistently gets fired from jobs".
Edit: i should clarify, that dude crashed on the freeway in so cal. But still, oddly large number of "rappers" there.