Why are basements scarce in California homes?
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I’m from southern Arizona and most houses here don’t have basements either….which is actually unfortunate imo, because having a cool basement would be amazing in the summer months and would probably contribute to cooling the entire house passively! Just one of the many ways desert construction in the US is extremely inefficient. That said, the ground is pretty rocky here and we have a sort of natural concrete called caliche in a lot of the soil, so understandable why they wouldn’t wanna dig thru that.
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