The Three Little Pigs go into the Peruvian construction business
It’s extraordinarily common all throughout Perú to see houses and other buildings that look as if they are still under construction. And yet they are open for business or people are living in them or they are otherwise in use.
I’m told this is because of Peruvian tax laws. Once construction is completed on a building, the property taxes go up dramatically. So most Peruvians see to it that construction is never, ever completed.
Even if the building hasn’t had work done to it in years. Even if the owners don’t ever intend to do any further work on it. You’ll still see rebar, or piles of bricks, or other blatantly obvious signs that the building is still “under construction”.
Brick is a very common construction material. I have also seen homes made of bamboo sticks and even ones where the walls were mats woven from reed-grass.
To be fair, not every building in Perú looks like it was built by the Three Little Pigs Construction Company, but a large majority of them do.
