I am pretty amazed by how much I've changed over the years since we moved to the US and then owned a house. Back when we are back in Taiwan (and I was still a young kid), doing house repair was something that unimaginable in our family. I still remember when we bought the house a couple years ago I've this feeling of being a little boy and got an over-sized toy that I don't now how to deal with. Yet now I are comfortable with most of the repairs in the house (even having some fun with doing all these). Guess my parents will be surprised if they know about this.
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Really! Being an Indian, it always seem rather strange that in America you have to do all your house chores yourself. Here we just call in people.
It is the same in Taiwan, we always call in people to do all house repairs. I guess part of that is cultural, everyone just think that's the way things are. The other reason is that labor is really cheap so there's no good reason to do the repair by yourself.
In the US it is the opposite. Labor is really expensive here. If you call in someone to do the repair, most of the cost is the labor. Also culturally home-owners are expected to do some simple repairs here.
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