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Come on most Americans are completely clueless DIY wise compared to most French people.
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How much of this is just the hacker news demographic skewing perceptions? For a lot of people here, it makes far more sense to hire someone to do home maintenance while you continue to work on a well-paid technology job. Doing a lot of home repair is a hobby/choice, not something you're doing out of necessity.
Every town in America has at least one, if not several Home Depot’s, Lowe’s, OSH’s, etc. and at least 75-90% of the traffic at any given time is private home owners, not contractors. Americans do a LOT of DIY.
There isn’t any real comparison anywhere else I’ve been able to find, and I’ve looked. Not as much in France, but Germany, Switzerland, Italy, India, Bulgaria (closest to having something like that), Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, etc.
Great article. Amazing the publishers first blog post and front page of HN. Well done ;)
Thank you and the others who also submitted it as originally this post was flagged. Probably because I changed the title after submitting it to "Show HN" but I am unsure. I am glad now that I spent the time to put it on github.io and not on some old server of mine that would have been hugged to death.
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Yes, here in SE Asia almost nobody who owns a home does the work, there's a very strong culture of hiring someone to do it.
How much of that is just a cost thing? Is hiring people to do home maintenance inexpensive and easily available where you are? That's usually not the case in American cities.
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I'm moving into my new home (which was built in 1962) in the next month or two. My plan is to run cat 6 throughout, before I get the bulk of my stuff/furniture in. Hopefully I won't need to smash into too many walls but there will be a few. Definitely worth it in the long run though.
There are so many things I think about "if I had just done X in those few weeks before moving in the furniture". This is an opportunity - you might want to brainstorm X. anything in the kitchen (before you start depending on it for food and/or fill the fridge with perishable stuff) mindfully adding specific storage. Could be the difference between moving in and piling all your stuff in random places. related: garage…