Comments by "Muck006" (@Muck006) on "American Reacts to 400 Year Old Canal House Tour in Europe" video.

  1. In Germany there are LOADS of half-timbered houses and they do require quite a bit of work to modernise ... while having some limitations (usually the plumbing and electricity and heating was put in in "creative" ways that waste space or arent clearly marked). Buying such a house can be relatively cheap, if you can consider €130.000 "cheap", but you should always include some money for repairs and modernisations. Of course you have to live with historians/inspectors, but that's far better than a completely boring new house.
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  2. Fun fact: In POTSDAM (slightly southwest of Berlin) there is a "Holländisches Viertel", which was built 1733-42 in the same style ... except the houses arent built at a canal and they are a bit wider and less tall (2 levels + 1 in the attic) ... because prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I. was fond of the dutch culture.
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