I know that now they are building excellent buildings, that's the same for where I am in Italy, but in the recent past it wasn't like that. With some reason, oil was extremely cheap everywhere, in Switzerland they also bussiness alliances with the producers so... Nobody cared!
Where I live every house built till the end of the '80s is completely crazy. A small flat can cost about 700 euros a year for heathing. An independent house with all the walls exposed (tipical here in the countryside) costs more than 3'000 euros a year.
In the 90's they did a bit better, mostly sensible houses in the first years of 2'000 and now every house is at least "almost passive" (not more than 20kWh/year/m^2...and that's for the cold part of Italy).
On top of this a quarter of the new buildings are completely passive for heating and warm water production.
But still not everybody is living in new houses....(of course!).
For the times I must take a car I have an hybrid.
Concluding....I want to remark that I am against soccer. I can't stand it. So I don't know what you're talking about.
