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Compliance with building codes <> higher quality

I grew up in a small farm house built in the 1700’s - post and beam construction, that will far outlast “code compliant” building methods of today

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“Lasting a long time” also <> higher quality. There’s a lot of other factors that more closely contribute to making a house a nice place to live. Whether it lasts for hundreds of years after the owners death is relatively unimpactful on their quality of life.

Fair enough - but I’d say the quality of construction was much higher as well.

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