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Why are houses in the USA built to such a poor standard compared to houses built in Europe?I think your premise is false. American houses are built to a different economic model. Most Americans are appalled by the living conditions Europeans take for granted.The most obvious difference is size. Europeans are more crowded and used to confined spaces. If you have a tiny yard, its easy to manicure every inch. If you have a tiny house, its easy to fuss over details. US homeowners want more space, even if it means it’s less precisely constructed.But let’s talk now about that construction. Often, when I see European house interiors, I see exposed plumbing and electric. In the USA, that is a characteristic of houses in a slum. Much of the reason is that European houses are built of brick, stone and concrete. And often they are OLD, very OLD - built before there was electricity or indoor plumbing. So those things were added later. Old structures were repurposed.Europeans use brick, stone, and concrete because they ran out of wood. It isn’t that Europeans preferred building out of such hard materials - they HAD to. They had deforested their continent long ago. Let;s not forget that most of North America was colonized by Europeans. The “wealth” of North America was a forest that covered the continent. So they built their homes of wood. Wood was easier to work with, warmer, and more easily adapted to change.Which brings us to the biggee: Whereas European construction is typically built to last indefinitely, American homes have a life expectancy of 50–100 years. They might easily last longer, but people want more modern homes and routinely tear down older homes to build new ones. If they *do* remodel an older structure to add some new technology, its a lot easier to do in a home built of wood with hollow walls. Something as simple as adding insulation to the walls is pretty easy in an American home, but pretty damned impossible for a European home built of stone.We like the look, however, and will put a brick or stone facade on our hollow-walled wood houses, just for appearance’ sake.Columbia MO, 1950:Columbia MO, 2010:This question was obviously intended to disparage the USA, and my answer has drawn lots of knee-jerk replies from European defenders who want to prove how much better European homes are. It’s quite a laugh to anyone who has had to live in both.Some claim Europe is full of forests. Uhuh. I suppose that’s why most European governments have implemented reforestation programs to try to bring back a few trees.Some point to their modern infrastructure and underground utilities. It’s true that WWII was quite effective clearing out the old infrastructure. Anything not below ground was bombed to smithereens.Ah.. and then there’s the photos showing the modern “integrated” European kitchen, with its compact design and combination oven-microwave-washer-dryer appliance, as well as the combo sink-shower-bathtub-toilet unit in the bathroom. Yes, very modern, and very European. Now, if only they could find room to put a full sized refrigerator INSIDE the house…..The truth is, they would all jump at a chance to live in an American home. So, give it up, and find something else to rant about. We have 74 million people who voted for Trump. Doesn’t that give you enough to criticize?

Well at present 3D printing is fairly significant to building; because the capacity for 3D printingby excreting concrete allows quickly made homes with very low need for human labor. Its been under very heavy consideration since the first concrete 3D printer (that I'd heard of) was made a few years ago, it's been debated for use in government housing, but I've yet to see that enter circulation.Now what has been done is private companies have taken the ideas and are now offering to build homes quickly for low prices using 3D printing. This is a trend that's definitely going to go up; especially as more 3D printed construction materials come into play(which are tricky since it can't have much viscosity or it makes it hard to excrete, hence why a concrete 3D printer was so surprising). Granted at present Winsun and Zhouda group in China are the only big players that've done anything with it, but I imagine that'll change as time goes on. If you want to look at some 3D printed homes or companies offering then here are some links:Chattanooga startup wants to 3D print your future houseThe first 3D printed house is coming, and the construction industry will never be the sameYes, that 3D-printed mansion is safe to live inWorld's first 3D-printed apartment building constructed in China - CNET

I’d assume Fremont, CA. They don’t have another Automotive manufacturing facility at the moment, and they’re probably a couple years before having one up and running in China, and I don’t think they’d want to do it there anyway if they’re shipping it here for use.Tesla was granted a 4.6M sqft expansion of the Fremont plant by the city of Fremont last year, though I don’t think they’ve begun building that out yet. This will almost double the size of the factory. Work looks to be ongoing in clearing some of the land for that build out. Not sure how much capacity they have left inside the old NUMMI facility. Not sure if the Tent space the temporarily built was do to interior space limits, or it was just a quicker solution than restructuring internally in order to temporarily boost Model 3 production while other parts of the NUMMI facility was ‘re-jigged’ for more production capacity (which I what I suspect but have no way to verify.)