They don’t have one at the Alamo, either.
Melbourne, never seen a house with a basement.
All new houses are pretty much built on a concrete slab laid on top of the ground. Older places are often on stumps, particularly where the block slopes.
The house I grew up in was built in 1900 in rural NSW and had a cellar under the kitchen but that would have been more of a cool store in the days before refrigeration.
I live in south Florida: no basement.
I grew up in RI and I am unaware of any houses there that don’t have basements.
The houses along the shore and waterways don’t typically have basements. Where did you live here? And congratulations on your escape.
I wondered about shoreline homes. I have an aunt and uncle with a “beach house” in Narragansett, but I guess it’s far enough inland to have a basement.
I grew up in North Providence, where my parents still live. I lived in Providence for nine years during and after college. I actually miss the northeast quite a bit.
Are you still in RI?
Yes, NY.
Sunny San Diego, and most usually no.
My grandmother’s house was built into a hillside, so there was a kind of semi-basement, where the (old!) oil-heater was, and the area was used for storage. But very few houses in this area have basements.
Not many have attics, either. Crawlspaces above and below, but not real actual attics.
30 years in Florida – no basements there.
Now in Massachusetts – lots of basements. The creepy, dark, unfinished kind freak me the hell out.
MA, and have one.
In the 30+ years I lived in Texas I saw exactly one basement, and I found it fascinating.
In PA I have only known of one house without a basement.
A lot of houses here in western Oregon have basements. My current house does not, but because it has 6 levels visitors assume that when they get to the lowest level they are in a basement, but it’s not. It opens to a deck and the woodsy hillside.
The house I grew up in in Idaho had a basement, and the houses I owned in Seattle and Omaha both had basements. Our real estate agent in Omaha told us he didn’t think he could sell a house without a basement, so they must be almost universal there.
In NJ most towns do, depending on the water table.
Yes. In Cumberland. I came here 20 years ago. It’s an odd little state that suits my personality.
Alabama and no basement; can’t think of a place down here that has them. Up in Ohio and Indiana it is custom.
The reason for building a house with a basement is blatantly obvious; in cold climates it’s a given.
No basements in Thailand. And I don’t think I ever saw any when I grew up in West Texas.
Florida Keys at sea level. No basement.
I give up. Why?:o
You need to dig down below the frost line for the foundation. Once you do that the cost of a full basement isn’t much more.
Virginia, and yes.