I once asked a colleague why this was the case, and the responses I got were basically "Wood is cheap, durable and we have lots of it. Other materials will price houses out of most Americans and there's no tangible benefit to using them anyway."
Which is both wrong and short sighted, but I could not get them to budge on acknowledging that other materials would actually be better for houses than wood and some foam.
You can actually search around on the Internet for this query as well and American stubbornness (/ exceptionalism?) once again rears it's head.
The weird thing about these foam and chicken coop wire homes is that they’re not cheap at all anyways. All the CyFy ones are ridiculously priced. Largely because you’re not buying a home, you’re buying a location (with a cheap home on it.)
The price of the structure can make up so little of the price of a property purchase. It’s so different everywhere for sure. But my home for example… if it was an empty lot I’d of still paid probably 80% what I actually paid.
If this comment is an indication of how you approached the conversation, maybe you failed to convince your colleague due to a lack of specific arguments and an abundance of scornful conceit.
It's interesting you mention that because I'm being quite charitable to my colleague, who was actually dismissively stubborn, and who ignored my personal experiences about living in a non-wood house.
The context is that I was shopping around for houses, doing inspections and such, and was merely curious about why homes were constructed in such a way. My home country primarily makes homes out of concrete and brick for heat insulation and it works well, compared to what I have to put up with a Texas heat wave in a wooden house currently.
I'm not entirely sure why you're assuming that I had no specific arguments though - I certainly wouldn't put a whole conversation verbatim onto an internet forum.
Which is both wrong and short sighted, but I could not get them to budge on acknowledging that other materials would actually be better for houses than wood and some foam.
You can actually search around on the Internet for this query as well and American stubbornness (/ exceptionalism?) once again rears it's head.