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  • Taubin@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    I am so damned sick of being cold indoors. I have three pairs of socks on, including a pair of thermals and slippers and I’m still cold and damp. Why is this acceptable anywhere? We are supposedly a first world country yet we still put up with this bullshit. It’s made me very cranky.

    • Dave@lemmy.nzOPM
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      1 year ago

      Why is this acceptable anywhere? We are supposedly a first world country yet we still put up with this bullshit

      (In my opinion) it’s really quite simple. We don’t have enough houses, therefore people have to live in the crappy ones. If we had more houses then the crappy ones would stay empty, eventually being knocked down to build more appealing houses. But while there is demand for any and all houses, people have to put up with what they can get.

      • Taubin@lemmy.nz
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        1 year ago

        The thing is, we are still building cold shitboxes, with the advice of “open windows to air the place out”. Well when it’s cold and wet outside, it’s not going to magically make it warm inside.

        I grew up in a place where we had proper, dry, warm houses. Even houses built in the 30’s were warm and dry. Houses hear built even within the last decade are cold damp shitboxes.

        I’m just venting but man am I sick of being cold and damp feeling all the time.