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by kenned3 1851 days ago
My ex-wife is Chinese from a city in China where everything is made out of cement.

The reason? The region also lacks trees. They have an abundance of the raw materials for cement, but not wood.. So that is what they used.

Cement is also a terrible material for many climates. Here (ontario) the freeze/thaw cycle causes it to crack unless you use a lot of costly methods to prevent this.