Part of the reason is that they have
much higher maintenance costs.
Not exact matches
The total spent on mortgages,
maintenance, utilities, improvements and other building related
costs by those groups that have buildings is
much higher.
cloth diapers are
much too
high -
maintenance and price wars have brought down the
cost of disposables significantly, so the savings take a long time to see (plus, it could be longer than the life of the cloth diaper - the technology is too new for there to be documentation of a full lifecycle of use).
However, the ease - of - manoeuvring a two stroke engine is less than that of a four stroke engine and the initial
cost of installation of a two stroke propulsion plant is also
much higher than running and
maintenance cost of a 4 stroke engine.
The Leaf does not, and when we have calculated the
costs in the past, the Leaf's
costs were
much higher than the «zero
maintenance costs» bandied about on the EV internet forums, and even in some advertisements.
The typical breadwinner will spend between 10 % and 30 % of their gross salary (which can represent as
much as 50 % of their take - home pay at the
high end) on various housing - related
costs, either rent and utilities for an apartment, or mortgage P&I, insurance, property taxes, utilities, HOA dues, home
maintenance costs, etc for a condo, townhome or SFD.
Of course, you will always have more computing and rendering power in a
high - end gaming PC, but it will come at a
much higher cost, in a
much bigger casing, and with more
maintenance effort.
All that may be happening is that replacements are
much more frequent, energy use and
costs lower, and equipment and
maintenance costs higher.
Aquaponics looks to be a powerful innovation for in door farming, a way to produce a
much higher - quality product with lower
maintenance costs.
The need to regularly replace oil filters also adds to annual
maintenance costs, which can be as
much as two to three times
higher than for gas heating systems.
Single - family, detached homes typically carry
higher price tags than townhouses and condos, depending highly on location, and have
higher home
maintenance costs, but house owners have all of the say in what get fixed when and how
much they are willing to spend.