Weird. I’ve heard this same phrase about every state I’ve lived in (always from a native) and it’s always turned out to be false.
Perhaps such a state does exist? Sibling comment seems to indicate California might not be one of them.
Perhaps such a state does exist? Sibling comment seems to indicate California might not be one of them.
It's definitely possible to have basements, but it's something only the exceptionally wealthy would even bother with.
There's tons of basements in Oklahoma, you're starting to get out of the expansive soil areas I was talking about at that point. You're then also needing to worry about the frost line so your foundations would need to be deeper anyways.
I’ve heard people in Oklahoma say that basements can’t be built because the soil has too much clay, yet I’ve seen them in older homes there.
I’m starting to think that “basements can’t be built in X state” is some kind of pervasive urban myth.
Really wealthy people in Texas might have a basement; its not impossible! Some really old homes before slab-style construction might have basements as well. Or they might be living in the high deserts out in West Texas. But like easily 99.9% of homes built in the majority of Texas do not have basements. If I were to ask everyone I know if they knew anyone who had a basement at any time in any home they ever lived in, the answer would probably be "no" almost every time. Finding a home built since the 1940's in this area that's less than $10M with a basement is practically finding a unicorn. Except its an expensive unicorn needing constant maintenance.
As for crawl spaces, they’re really common on older homes up here (central FL); I have one.