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Why don't people build there own houses any more?

  • I was visiting my friend in Kuala Lampur a few months ago, and on the way there I saw hundreds of kilometres of subdivision houses built cheaply far away from the city limits. With no bus or train stations, no independent businesses. Just thousands of identical looking houses and American corporate retailers. Where I live in Kuching, it is not like this, but in western Malaysia, all the farms that had been in peoples' families for generations are being destroyed and replaced by identical looking houses and American corporate retailers. The house I grew up in in Kuching was built by my grandfather in 1941 and a lot of the houses around me were built by previous owners. The house is made of wood and has held up for over 70 years. How come these new sub division houses are being built by corporations, and why do they have all the same stores around them in every town? Why isn't there any public transportation and why aren't these houses being built by the owners any more?

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    Because paying for a house that has been built by somebody else is cheaper in both terms of money and time than building your own house is. EDIT: That's what I meant - the work involved consumes time and money - it's simply easier to pay for one that is already built.

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Grandpa Johnson

I think Bob means that it is more expensive to do it yourself even if you were to go as basic as to cut your own timber. Plus there are all kinds of permits and who knows how to do all the electrical and plumbing, etc.

greenfrogs

The cost of purchasing the land, getting plans drawn up, paying an architect, getting reliable builders, getting approval from the Council, the cost of raw materials, the cost of labour, the rotten weather and.....do l need to go on?

K M T

American Corporate retailers could not set up business there if not invited or allowed by Malaysia. Few people in the US build their own houses either.

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