I don't usually recommend Instagram accounts but I've been following CyFy Home Inspections[1][2] for quite some time now and you get a real first hand glimpse at what this sort of shoddy construction looks like.
I would have thought that regions that don’t have winter weather would just cheap out on insulation, but they cheap out on the whole thing.
It got me thinking that the mere existence of winter weather kind of sets a minimum standard of quality.
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 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.
He has a lot of content on Youtube, too.