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Yeah, they used those clips on my house. I guess they hold a little better. But when a tree falls on the house, they are no help. And my house is not wood, but built in stone. So I still don't understand why they could not put a concrete ceiling on the top of it.
One of the excuses was that they would not know how to run all the AC vents, power lines, etc. But that is easy. You just make the walls a foot higher and run those lines under the concrete ceiling. Then camouflage that with a false hanging ceiling. I was willing to pay the extra, but they just would not do it.
People just don't want to change. It is the same with the power lines below ground. In the long run that is cheaper and does not expose millions of people to power cuts. And in the US it is easy because there are normally easements on the sides of the road. In Germany they have to bury them under the street (no easements) which is a lot more expensive. But here it was done everywhere after WWII.