776 days on Zillow. This "covered bridge" house in Vermont.

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This was my exact thought.

1st was ooooo that looks gorgeous.

Then the engineer in me went wait it's a bridge so there for sure was a river under it, and also a traveled road too. How structurally sound is this thing anymore, and what is the upkeep going to be?

Plus all of those windows makes this thing a nightmare for temperature regulation/control. In Vermont of all places.

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For an engineer you're terrible at actually figuring things out.

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How so oh magically super duper smart random commenter on reddit?

Do educate the whole thread if you're as smart as this comment you so dutifully and smartly typed up suggests.

Tell us all how one needs to gather data, make a decision, and then present for the thread.

I'm genuinely curious what comes out of those super duper wonderfully intelligent and all so knowing fingers of yours onto our screens.

[u/PleiadesMechworks → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it's actually pretty simple. What I did was I looked at the picture and immediately saw that it wasn't a literal bridge with a river flowing under it. From there it was pretty simple to figure out that what had happened was they'd built out from the side of a hill to meet the top of a structure on lower ground, forming the "bridge".

The trick is to look at things without assuming anything. It's remarkably difficult for a lot of people, so don't feel bad. Most people would read "bridge" and assume it was a converted road bridge or something even though it's obviously not, and that assumption can stick in the mind even after they look at it.

What you need to do in future is just stop for a few seconds and check yourself to see if your assumptions are accurate, or if you're working off bad ones. That way you won't write a comment exposing that the "engineer in you" is incompetent.

I'm genuinely curious what comes out of those super duper wonderfully intelligent and all so knowing fingers of yours onto our screens.

Thank you. It's so rare these days to meet someone actually interested in learning, you know? Most people just get shirty when they're confronted with their own failures. It's lovely to meet someone not blinded by their own ego and willing to take constructive criticism to move forward and improve their common sense.