edit: this was clarified and i didnt mean to challenge the poster, just a story they may have been told.

Thats kind of a suspect story. not from you, no offense. I mean , from them. if anyones telling tales about "basement rooms" in texas afaik theyre lying. i lived in texas a few years and people looked at you like you were from another planet if you used that word. Wonder where they were really staying and what the story is. if it was a basement, it was on government or military property kek

Some have fled Texas which is unbearable to live in basement rooms with other families

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texanist-dont-texas-houses-basements/

It is true that basements in Texas’s residential structures are a rarity. The Texanist specifically highlights “residential” because basements are not uncommon in larger buildings. The Capitol, in Austin, has a basement; the nearby Goodman Building, a stone’s throw from the statehouse’s west entrance, has a basement that houses an historic bar at which the Texanist likes to wet his whistle now and then; and the Alamo, despite what you may have learned from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, has two basements. In fact, almost all the big Texas buildings the Texanist can think of, both historic and new, have basements. But you are absolutely right that few houses in Texas are similarly equipped.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-no-basements-in-San-Antonio

Because the ground is limestone and Calichi mixed into a strata of other rock and hard materials. Digging a hole to plant a shrub or tree requires a ““rock bar” as they are called here, not a shovel.

Thats kind of a suspect story. not from you, no offense. I mean , from them. if anyones telling tales about "basement rooms" in texas afaik theyre lying. i lived in texas a few years and people looked at you like you were from another planet if you used that word. Wonder where they were really staying and what the story is. if it was a basement, it was on government or military property kek

Some have fled Texas which is unbearable to live in basement rooms with other families

https://www.texasmonthly.com/being-texan/texanist-dont-texas-houses-basements/

It is true that basements in Texas’s residential structures are a rarity. The Texanist specifically highlights “residential” because basements are not uncommon in larger buildings. The Capitol, in Austin, has a basement; the nearby Goodman Building, a stone’s throw from the statehouse’s west entrance, has a basement that houses an historic bar at which the Texanist likes to wet his whistle now and then; and the Alamo, despite what you may have learned from Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, has two basements. In fact, almost all the big Texas buildings the Texanist can think of, both historic and new, have basements. But you are absolutely right that few houses in Texas are similarly equipped.

https://www.quora.com/Why-are-there-no-basements-in-San-Antonio

Because the ground is limestone and Calichi mixed into a strata of other rock and hard materials. Digging a hole to plant a shrub or tree requires a ““rock bar” as they are called here, not a shovel.