A lot of sub-par building goes on here in Alaska. I know, you are all surprised....
When I lived in AK as a young man I barely knew how to build a doghouse, after moving the the 48 and learning to build quality homes, and seeing pictures of stuff that gets built up there, I whole-heartedly agree.
An engineer buddy of mine told me about a house some knucklehead built north of Fairbanks. It was slab-on-grade, like they do in Florida. Everyone told him he was an idiot but he scoffed. The house literally broke in half. The students from U of A would come out to see the carnage.
