Ha! I got ahead of the game and just had an unfinished basement for five years! Even easier access!

American homes…cheap AF.

One reason for this, believe it or not, is slavery. One very under-appreciated aspect of cotton plantations is that cotton (in the days before artificial fertilizers) very quickly exhausted the soil of the American South, leaving behind land that was mostly only suitable for growing pine trees. This left pine wood as a cheap and plentiful resource for building houses. Southern US pine is now so plentiful that it's even the source of most of the chopsticks in China.

Bricks cannot be put at ground level. They will deteriorate.

if it it's only on the front are they even using full bricks or just brick face?

They're such drama queens. "Oh no, I'm getting a free massage! Horrible! How dare you!" lifts paw menacingly

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/ceiling-cat

Old meme reference

Ceiling Cat is an ancient meme, over 20 years old. That is what Ceiling Cat does though.

This wooshed over your head so hard and fast I'm surprised your windows didn't blow out from the pressure🤣

You wouldn't? I'm so sorry you can't joke around with your own friends. And it's on the strangers for eavesdropping, you're not talking to them.