Tired of high costs, some Americans are importing homes straight from China (edition.cnn.com)

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Gennadiy Tsygan knows how expensive it is to build a home in the United States. That’s why he imported almost everything for his dream house from China.

Most of his home fixtures were imported directly from over two dozen factories, and Tsygan — an engineer in Baltimore — flew halfway around the world in 2024 to choose some of those products.

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[-] neuracnu@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 6 days ago

Kit homes have been a thing for over 100 years.

[-] frunch@lemmy.world 9 points 6 days ago

Some of the houses in my town were ordered from a Sears catalog back in the day!

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