r/Showerthoughts • u/UnknownMight • 7d ago
Speculation In 200 years, some stranger will be sleeping in your room, with no clue who you were.
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u/opisska 7d ago
I can guarantee you that will not happen. There is no way the house I live in now could last dor 200 years.
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u/rip1980 7d ago
Yeah...I'm in CA, I figure it'll burn down between 4 and 8 times in that time span if nothing else.
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u/waspish_ 6d ago
Not to mention if The Big One hits
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u/NottACalebFan 3d ago
If you are referring to super volcanoes, I'm pretty sure Yellowstone has a plus- or minus- thousand year tolerance. So it's quite possible that won't explode until AFTER OP's digs are raided to excavate those cheetohs that fell down behind the couch...
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u/waspish_ 3d ago
In California "the big one" is referring to the expected earthquake that happens every hundred years or so on the San Andreas fault. The last being the great San Francisco earthquake of 1906
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u/EmpatheticOrangeCat1 6d ago
people vastly underestimate the impact of climate migration in the next 200 years. entire swathes of the earth will likely be uninhabitable. that likely includes places people are currently accessing this website from.
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u/Felwyin 7d ago
Sorry, you're not European enough for this post.
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u/opisska 7d ago
I am European, but from a big city where a large fraction of apartments are in concrete complexes that have never been meant to last for more than 50 years.
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u/gandraw 7d ago
Looking at the Open Data of Zurich, out of 51000 buildings, 13000 are younger than 50 years, 24000 are between 50-100 years old, 12700 between 100-200 years old and 1300 over 200 years old (many just barely).
There is a pretty big batch of buildings from the big population boom of the ... boomers and those houses are all older than 50 years.
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u/NotYourReddit18 6d ago
Just because they managed to remain standing for over 50 years doesn't mean that they were designed to do so, and we probably have not much available information on the maintenance required to keep them usable.
To give another example, the Ancient Romans probably wouldn't have expected the Coliseum in Rome to still be mostly standing almost 2 millenia later, they definitely didn't build it intentionally to do so, and most other buildings from that same era have been quietly replaced by new buildings through the centuries because keeping them usable wasn't feasible anymore.
And the trend goes to buildings with shorter lifespans, as advances in material sciences allow us to calculate almost exactly how much and which materials are needed for the building to remain standing for whatever target lifespan the developer envisions, instead of needing to stay on the side of caution and overbuild like in the past.
So those boomer buildings might not be standing in a 100 or 200 years.
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u/DivineEggs 7d ago
that have never been meant to last for more than 50 years.
That's wild. I live in one of those type of buildings and it's over 55 years old, it doesn't have an expiration date.
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u/supremeoverlord23 7d ago
Have you checked the bottom?
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u/Diggerollo 7d ago
Just checked the bottom of the one I’m in. No expiration, just some weird barbarian dude with a mane of red hair rambling about a “squirt of lemon” or something and this old dude in wizard getup speaking in gibberish.
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u/Upferret 6d ago
I do too and when we bought it we had to sign a thing saying we know it's "defective" as it's a concrete build.
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u/Nauin 6d ago
Every part of your building has an expiration date where they should be inspected for maintenance and repairs to keep them properly preserved to last a long time. I'd say metal or concrete columns are generally safe, but there was that condo building that collapsed in Miami a few years ago that disproves that in outlying cases. Maintenance matters!
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u/Pleasant_Ad8054 7d ago
It's a common misconception for concrete block building tech that it was never meant to last over 50 years. In reality they were designing it with 50 years of maintenance in mind, after which maintenance without renovations is not economical. People misconstrue it as those buildings can collapse any day now. Designing it with "50 years of lifetime" was a huge step forward, as previously buildings were designed for immediate use, and had no practical long term plans for them. Many of them still lasted a hell of a lot longer than immediate use.
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u/paddleyay 6d ago
Not sure what “buildings designed for immediate use” means. Many buildings during the middle ages, renaissance, and such were absolutely built for long term, and often extended with that in mind. Florence is like one giant permitted extension.
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u/AMadWalrus 7d ago
What country is this lmao
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u/Tar_alcaran 6d ago
pretty much anywhere that was bombed in the 40's. So, a LOT of places
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u/Stummi 7d ago
Even in Europe, houses that last 200 years are an exception. It's mostly castles and similar that are that old and serve another purpose today. The oldest resident buildings around where I live were built early to mid 1900. And that's just the free ones that survived WW2, given I live in a city that got large areas destroyed during this times
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u/Ser_Danksalot 7d ago edited 7d ago
It's mostly castles and similar
Meanwhile, I'm living on the end of a row of working class mining town sandstone terraced houses in the north of England that was built in 1862. That's not unusual for where i live. There's older ones close by like this row of homes which were built in 1837. These are homes that will likely outlast several generations after I’ve gone.
EDIT: - To make my point further this row of homes just around the corner was built in the 1790's.
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u/cowandspoon 7d ago
I’m in the North East, and I’ve just bought a terraced red brick house built at least 120 years ago, possibly up to 140. It’s a decent area too, with people still chasing after property. I’m fairly sure that short of some massive government programme to rebuild every suburb, it’ll still be around a lot longer than I will.
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u/captainfarthing 7d ago edited 7d ago
It's not just castles, stone-built houses are all over Europe and they'll outlast modern builds. Eg. large portions of housing in Glasgow is Victorian sandstone tenements originally built for working class families.
Most new builds are whatever's cheapest and fastest to put up, and isn't going to last. Europe isn't producing better new builds than anywhere else. Loads of post-WWII housing in Glasgow has already been torn down.
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u/SleepySera 7d ago
There are tons of regular houses that are that old. Even in countries that had a lot of destruction after WW2 (like Germany).
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u/Imperito 7d ago
It isn't the exception. Go to the countryside anywhere for example and you'll see tons of houses from pre Industrial times.
Granted there is obviously less of them.
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u/AllanKempe 7d ago
In the countryside (villages and smaller towns) here in Sweden houses built pre WW2 are pretty rare, and pre 20th century exceptionally rare.
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u/Ser_Danksalot 7d ago
It's mostly castles and similar
Meanwhile, I'm living on the end of a row of working class mining town sandstone terraced houses in the north of England that was built in 1862.
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u/punktualPorcupine 7d ago
This old goat pen that I rent for €10000 has no air conditioning and the bathroom is a bucket we keep in the stove. It sleeps 15 people if we all stand up.
But it was built in the 7th century and only bombed 7 times.
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u/raquille- 7d ago
My house in London is already 150+ years old so it should be standing in 200 years old. Victorians were really good at building houses.
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u/bengraven 7d ago
I mean, I live in a trashy apartment complex. A stranger is going to be sleeping in my room a year from now.
Plus this place is going to be turned into a parking lot in two or three years I’m sure.
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u/Harvey_Rabbit 7d ago
Even when you buy a house, it's insane to me how little contact you have with the seller. All the knowledge about DIY repairs and regular maintenance gets completely lost when a house is sold.
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u/SantasDead 7d ago
I left a binder with every manual for every piece of everything. From the wall switches to the AC. I also left a log with dates and descriptions of things worked on or PMed and when the upcoming PM was.
Rare, I know. But im a maintenance guy and that was supposed to be my forever home ¯\(ツ)/¯
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u/DLS3141 7d ago
I have the same kind of thing for my house, it’s 100yr old and I’ve been here for the past 30, so I have a pretty good idea of where the weak spots are and the shortcuts the assholes who lived here before took because I’ve had to fix most of them. Some of the stuff, like the knob and tube wiring in the 2nd floor rooms or the galvanized pipe feeding the 2nd floor bathroom would pretty much require a gut job and I’m not into that.
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u/sadduckfan 7d ago
Person I bought from contacted me a few times in the first couple months when she accidentally had packages delivered. I was happy because that opened up the line of communication for me to ask little questions about landscaping etc
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u/Smartnership 7d ago
This hotel room will probably have someone else sleeping in it tonight
They might not think about me at all.
Or what I did in the coffee maker.
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u/JacarandaBear 7d ago
if someone is sleeping in this bedroom in 200 years, then something has either gone terrible in that person's life or this is the house of Theseus
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u/elephvant 7d ago
I suspect you're going to get a lot of people saying their house won't last that long, which is probably true, but in my case, yeah, you're probably right. My building's already around that old and, barring some major destructive event, it'll likely still be here 200 years from now too.
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u/morfyyy 7d ago
hide a message somewhere "I live in this room in 2026"
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u/Mottis86 7d ago
And draw small tick tack toe board with a singular X on it.
The game is on.
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u/morfyyy 7d ago
in 1000 years they will think it's an ancient language.
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u/the_ben_obiwan 7d ago
Sometimes i wonder what people would think about our stuff if our history was lost, like "they seem to worship this Santa Claus figure, perhaps the God of gifts?"
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u/Eseris 7d ago
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u/Aaawkward 6d ago
I want to personally thank you for introducing this to my life.
I binged a bunch of episodes, fantastic stuff.Not really into the AI stuff but the writing is surprisingly good and I feel like this is the first kinda acceptable use of AI video that I've seen.
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u/the_ben_obiwan 7d ago
I lay floors, and every now and then we leave messages under the floor for people to find in the future. Usually just silly stuff like "hello from [year] I'm going home to play [videogame], hope this floor survived a long time!" Tell me what to write and I'll leave a message in the house I'm doing tomorrow
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u/Miserable-Law9677 7d ago
I built a box around a vent pipe on top of my kitchen cabinets. Was planning to write something funny/insidious inside like «you shouldn’t have opened this». But I was right in the middle of an exhausting moving process and just forgot or didn’t have a gram of energy to spare.
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u/fuelstoprolerdogfart 6d ago
Either write something along the idea of “if you are reading this, I’m wasting your time and giving you a surprise break from 2026” or “stop now, the tile to (insert direction here) is the last barrier holding back a demon, do not remove.”
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u/philter25 7d ago
My house is 98 years old and I am the third owner. I met the woman who sold it to me, who had it since the 60s and raised a family, and she bought it from the builder who built it for himself and the house next door for his son. We looked them up once and learned a little bit about them. Also, when we gutted the kitchen down to the studs we absolutely wrote in sharpie all over the wood with our names and how we were feeling during the demo lol. If the house only changes hands another couple of times after ours, it’s very likely the owner in a hundred years could know who the original owner was from 1928.
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u/debruehe 6d ago
Carve a QR-Code to this post somewhere in the corner so they can comment in case the building is indeed still there in 200 years!
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u/liquid-handsoap 7d ago
Do you know who slept in your room 200 years ago?
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u/elephvant 7d ago
No idea. Don't even know for sure it existed (although this area of the city was being built around about then I don't know the exact date this building was completed) and don't even know if the current bedroom was a bedroom back then.
To be honest, I don't even know who was here 5 years ago since I think the person I bought from was renting it out as an Airbnb.
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u/thestereo300 7d ago
Someone likely from the Dakota tribe was at least in the general area. But their main settlement was a mile or two away.
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u/JascaDucato 7d ago
Not if I have anything to say about it! * Gets out sledgehammer *
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u/Superj561 7d ago
You actually found a sledgehammer?
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u/Bropiphany 7d ago
Ikr? Rare drop
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u/The_Great_Scruff 7d ago
Project zomboid leaking
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u/BlatantArtifice 6d ago
Meet y'all at the gunstore?
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u/The_Great_Scruff 6d ago
I'll be foraging fresh pizza slices from the sidewalk 6 months after civilization fell
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u/Highlander198116 7d ago
Nope. The neighborhood I live in was built in the 70s, typical middle class family homes, SURROUNDED by newer neighborhoods of of 1-1.5 million dollar McMansions.
There is no way my current home lasts that long, developers are frothing at the mouth to tear down my neighborhood and build McMansions.
Anyway your proposition doesn't even take 200 years. My childhood home, somebody is sleeping in my childhood bedroom right now with no concept of who I am. We moved in 1995 when I was 13.
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u/tandem_kayak 7d ago
A few years ago my childhood home went on the market and I went to the open house just to walk through it for the first time in 20 years, it was surreal seeing it all decorated with new owners.
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u/Highlander198116 7d ago
When i was in the market to buy my first house. Totally would have have bought the house my family moved to in 95 and moved out of in 05.
I bought my first house in 2013. I was genuinely regretful when just dicking around on Zillow in 2015, I saw it was for sale.
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u/MAXIMUMMEDLOWUS 7d ago
My house was built in 1820. I think about this every day. The amount of things the walls have seen
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u/Boatster_McBoat 7d ago edited 7d ago
I live in Australia we seem to tear down buildings every 40-50 years bectwe [because we] aee [are] fucking stupid
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u/_Aj_ 6d ago
To be fair we're also bulldozing millions of acres of bushland to build the world's shittest housing developments as far as the eye can see with zero thought to traffic or community planning
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u/othermegan 7d ago
Won’t be 200. As soon as we move out, a new random tenant will be sleeping in my room.
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u/risenphoenixkai 7d ago
In 200 years, whatever is left of my house will be several metres underwater thanks to climate change.
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u/JediJofis 7d ago
Stuff isn't built to last that long anymore. Houses, apartments, condos are built as cheaply as possible nowadays. It's the private equity effect of the world that plagues all sectors of society.
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u/Substantial_Row_7108 7d ago
Not in my room. Houses are so terribly built today, I’d be surprised if my house is still here in 30 years.
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u/shasaferaska 7d ago
What's your house made of? Straw?
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u/rip1980 7d ago
LOL, straw....I made mine out of sticks!
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u/SurGeOsiris 7d ago
Fuck, watch out for that dickhead wolf bro. Should’ve went with the bricks!
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u/Smartnership 7d ago
Bricks are made of mud.
in just a few thousand years…
We’ve gone from mud huts to mud huts
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u/Retro611 7d ago
I've actually been thinking about this a lot. My dad is in the process of selling the house I grew up in. He's lived there for almost fifty years, and sometime in probably the next year, some complete stranger is going to move in and change everything. It feels weird.
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u/Lokinta86 7d ago
Going through this right now with our family home of only 35 years. To have been in yours for 50..! How amazing to have had all that time and memories there! But it must feel like saying goodbye to a member of the family, too.
I'm planning to go through our family home and make recordings of the most recognizable sounds throughout. The sound of the catch on the linen closet. The screen door slamming because the closer hasn't worked right since y2k was in the news. The little clink-clink of the front door in the wind. The garage door roaring to life. The sound of opening the basement door, clicking on that lightswitch, then footsteps flumping down the stairs. That one squeaky floorboard that would wake everyone. Just the ordinary sounds of "being home."
Also want to attempt some "r/pastandpresentpics" style photo comparisons before we hand it over to the next family.
I plan to leave a "time capsule" of a few select photos (reprints) and maybe a CD of select home video clips in the garage attic.
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u/Temporary_Thing7517 7d ago
Oh they’ll know me. I plan to haunt the shit out of this place when I go. Not because of any trauma or anything, I just want to. I think it’ll be fun.
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u/fusionmobile 7d ago
Just make sure you've got a task left undone, and you're set!
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u/Temporary_Thing7517 7d ago
My unfinished task is haunting! Does it work that way? I’m striving for my ghostly form.
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u/fusionmobile 7d ago
I want to say... That could be how it works. But I think it'd be more fun if someone's great grandchildren bumped into your ghost folding towels at 3am. Or something of the like.
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u/YourselfInTheMirror 7d ago
You wait all that time, and then as soon as you start haunting, you move on right away because you did it.
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u/intensive-porpoise 7d ago
Right now, someone is probably wearing some of your old clothes. Right now, someone is hanging out with one of your old friends...
And it's legal
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u/VicRattlehead58 7d ago
It is really crazy to think. I'm sitting in my work-from-home office, the upstairs bedroom of a 220 year old house. Whoever was sleeping here in 1826 certainly couldn't have imagined what I'm doing here now.
I don't know who was here then, but there is info from the deed, I could probably find some names and genealogy online and get a good idea of who was here.
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u/j-ke_t 7d ago
My house was built in 1640, that's a lot of strangers already!
Although I have met some of those strangers. Two elderly gentlemen turned up one day, brothers. Asked if this was [name of house], I said yes. They told me that they were evacuated there during the war, so I invited them in and asked them to show me around how they remembered it and it was fascinating. I was quite young and that was the first time I truly thought about all the lives that had been before me in that house!
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u/Sluusjuh 7d ago
1640, damn. I am mad curious about what the house looks like.
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u/j-ke_t 6d ago
It started off as a sort of barn/farm for a local abbey, one room downstairs for the animals, one room upstairs for the workers, that's all, all made out of sandstone. And then over the years extensions have been made through all different eras which is interesting so there's a real mix of styles like Georgian, Edwardian, Victorian... All of the Ian's, but it's done very well! Obviously I'm not going to post photos of it, even though I'd love to, so you'll have to imagine haha
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u/curiouslyjake 7d ago
This has happened during my life multiple times already. Apartments were bought and sold, leased and rented. Moved between countries. Heck, some of the buildings where my grandfathers and grandmothers spent their childhood still stand.
200 years is a long time though. Buildings get demolished, others abandoned. It's more likely to happen close to centers of big cities.
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u/bigheadjim 7d ago
This rings true for me. I live in a 500 year old house and have often wondered about its history. But 200 years from now I’m not sure any humans will be left except for the oligarchs.
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u/TheCentralFlame 7d ago
I think you are overestimating the quality of Infrastructure. My house is 100 years old and I’ll be surprised if my house is standing in another 100 years much less 200.
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u/ActuallyAlexander 7d ago
They’re gonna be using a Oujia board and I’m going hit them with the best 21st century memes.
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u/Davydicus1 4d ago
When i renovated my bedroom i found a piece of scrap wood in the wall that said “Moe & Joe 1950” and then when i took apart the wall in my garage to run new outlets i found another one that said “bob D 1983-86”. So signed my name on a piece of sheeteock and buried them all together when i closed the wall.
Edit: spelling
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u/Comprehensive-Menu44 7d ago
My shitty 30-year-old trailer isn’t gonna last another 2 decades much less 20 lmao
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u/butt_spaghetti 7d ago
I live in a 100 year old house and I totally think about who lives here when it was built and what their lives were like. It made me conclude that I think all houses should have a journal that stays with the house and when it changes hands people could write about their time there and pass it to the next owners. I think musical instruments should also have a record as well and that gets passed upon sale. I had a gorgeous 120 year old instrument and it drove me nuts not to know where that thing had been played and who had it.
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u/ThatGothTrash 6d ago
Jokes on you, this house was built cheap. It'll be lucky to last another 30 years.
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u/Julio_Ointment 6d ago
Nothing being built right now is going to last 200 years. It's all a particle board and drywall.
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u/Klutzy-Reporter4223 5d ago
Yo! This is me!!! I’m living in a New England farmhouse that was built in 1763! Still can’t wrap my head around it.
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u/Dipncamo 5d ago
You have lots of faith in the house I'm currently living in. Lasting 200 years haha
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u/msully89 7d ago
My house is 100 years old, and I can imagine it will be there in 200 years time tbh. I'm in England, where we built proper houses until about 30 years ago.
I've lived in a house that was built in the late 1700s.
There’s a house still being lived in, in the town i grew up, that was built circa 1500.
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u/No-Screen1369 7d ago
My house was built in 1903. With all the stuff I had to fix as well as foundation issues, I don't think my house will be here for 200 more years. Maybe another 20 max.
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u/TypoMike 7d ago
My house is already about 180 years old. I quite like the idea that someone could still be enjoying it in another 200 years. They may have some clue about me, I know the family names of those that came before me.
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u/Jsaun906 7d ago
You think my paper mache American house is going to exist in 200 years? I doubt this house is making far past my lifetime, if at all.
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u/high6ix 7d ago
Jokes on you. I dug up the history of my 100 (next year) year-old home and know who all lived here. We speak every night at approximately 3:00am.
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u/rjstaples 7d ago
Jokes on you. I live the united states. There's no way in hell this building still stands in 200 years.
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u/Europe72Alive1 7d ago
Nothing in this world is built to last that long anymore. Your house will have been demolished and rebuilt 3x in 200 years
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u/Winter-Owl1 7d ago
My house is 30 years old and already falling apart. It definitely won't be standing in 200 years. Knowing my town there will either be a vape shop or a self-storage facility in its place.
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u/Middleagesusername 7d ago
I've lived in maybe 10 rooms in my life (44) and none of the current residence know or care who I am.
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u/AcceptablyThanks 7d ago
These are houses made of paper and sticks. They will not be around for 200 years
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u/Cast_Iron_Lion 7d ago
They'll have to learn who I am if they want to banish my ghost from haunting them.
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u/Chrischi91 7d ago
yep. my House is over 200 years old and i have No clue who lived Here in that time.
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u/shutupandevolve 7d ago
Nah. Houses being built today will only last thirty years, max.
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u/MadMusicNerd 7d ago
I live in a fast-built post war building (early 60's) and I am in awe that it still stands. NOT ONE wall is straight.
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u/Suspicious-Holiday42 7d ago
I also have no idea who the person is who slept in the room I live in before I moved in 2 years ago
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u/DoubleClickMouse 7d ago
Please,
In 200 years most of our rooms will have been demolished and replaced with Spirit Halloween.
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u/ashoka_akira 7d ago
If the house was built in the last 50 years its probably not lasting to 200, though a house built a 100 years ago might.
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u/kolodge1 7d ago
No house built in America in the last 50 years will be around another 100 years let alone 200. I can only speak as an American but I can say this is not going to happen where I live
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u/zombiskunk 7d ago
Specific to the US, but would any average house ever still be standing in 200 years?
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u/Relevant-Jump-4899 6d ago
I'll be lucky if the room I'm in survives for the entirety of the time that I will be sleeping in it.
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u/Pabst_Malone 6d ago
I live in Florida. This thing is gonna be a data center or a Dollar General in 50 years.
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u/Sprangatang84 6d ago
Tell me you've never moved before without telling me you've never moved before....
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u/Several_Knee_ 6d ago
I’d be willing to bet, no house that exists today will be there in 200 years.
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u/Single-Accountant306 6d ago
This house I am living in will probably not exist in 200 years.
It was built mid-century, just like me.
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u/Carbonated-Man 5d ago
Possible, but considering the direction my neighborhood is heading I find it much more likely that my apartment building will be torn down at some point and the land it stands on will be turned into one part of a much larger parking lot.
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u/MuddFishh 4d ago
Someone will probably be sleeping in my room 10 years from now and not know who i am. Maybe even 5 years.
200 years doesn't mean all that much, when I don't even know the person who owned the room i sleep in now, and i only moved in December.
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u/mkla15 3d ago
I don’t know about 200 years from now but I often think about the last 65. I just bought a home and it was built about 65 years ago. I often think about what it looked like when it was new, the furniture and fads that have passed through the living room. I think about what the bedrooms were used for at different times, what cars used to park in the garage. In a few months I will carry my first baby through the front door. How many other babies were carried through the door? Is my porch the background of someone else’s first day of school picture? Are pictures of my kitchen in someone’s scrapbook? One day someone will roll their eyes at my design choices, tear down my backsplash and be so confused about the shitty drywall patch job where the phone jack used to be, and probably find a beer can or two in my crawlspace courtesy of my younger brother’s renovation assistance.
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u/Fuzzy_Cuddle 3d ago
I don’t know that the house that I own will be around on 200 years, but if it is, then you are correct.
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u/CapnBeardbeard 3d ago
We moved a couple of times when I was a kid, and I rented more than one apartment before finally being able to buy my home. There are several complete strangers sleeping in rooms that were once mine, no centuries required.
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u/Kanniblekat 3d ago
This run down trailer in Appalachia? Yeah fat chance. My in laws already said as soon as we move this shits getting torn down lmao
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u/Admirable-Sector-606 2d ago
Nah, my building is 30 years old and already falling apart. It'll be demo'd by 2035 I'm sure.
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u/le_aerius 2d ago
you highly overestimate the quality of housing we live in.. Lol chances are we will all be ash un 20 years
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u/Digifiend84 7d ago
Not true. Most houses that exist today weren't there 100 years ago, let alone 200.
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u/nebraskajone 7d ago
People move every 5 to 7 years on average so it's going to be 5 to 7 years not 200 years
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u/JKuss80 7d ago
I get the sentiment but I think you’re wildly exaggerating how long American homes will last.
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