>>>They don't know already. I still have to see a house here built with bricks. Not "having a thin layer of bricks for a façade", but built with bricks as a weight-carrying element.
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>>Have you been to any of the east coast big cities? Tons of brick houses.
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>Manhattan would do, I assume.
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>I think I was too harsh... should have defined "here" as "here in Virginia".

Houses built in Northern Virginia, or elsewhere in the Washington area, before the '60's are likely to be brick. The house I lived in until this year, built in the 30's, is brick with a few stones interspersed.