Long-Term Building in Japan
Very respectable.  On a side note though, I often see people complain about how things aren&#x27;t &quot;built to last&quot; anymore and sometimes I wonder (as a person naive to construction) is that even a good thing?<p>I&#x27;ve lived in a few places over the years and it seems the older houses were consistently not great while the newer ones might have felt cheaper, but all the while felt &quot;designed&quot; for modern life.<p>Perhaps since my family was never really well off growing up, I&#x27;m used to &quot;cheap, old houses&quot; and now that things have gotten a bit better, I find myself in newer, more expensive houses... idk, just seems like any house built now wouldn&#x27;t really suit most people 100 years from now, no matter the quality.<p>A &quot;simple&quot; example, we do have a vacation cottage that was built in the 1800s, passed down each generation, with very few changes.  It&#x27;s holding up well but it feels like it was made for elves and &quot;fixing&quot; that would be next to impossible without redoing most of the building.  Again nice to visit but you would have to make a ton of changes to make it more livable...