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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: LC EFA on February 24, 2009, 04:44:28 PM
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Everyone should have the pleasure of a tarpaper shack without indoor plumbing.
PM Martin (725 posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:34 PM
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Can we agree on this one: "No more McMansions"!
Edited on Mon Feb-23-09 10:37 PM by PM Martin
Is there really any need for 3500-4000 sqft homes for a family of 4?
Was not the size of a new home built in the mid 60's 2200 sqft?
Is that not enough space. You also had an acre of land to go along with that home.
Another note: the amount of land has decreased as these new "McMansions" had become larger.
The concept of Suburbia was to get away from the city and have land and "freedom" and all that other stuff that
defined the American "dream".
Just how much of that "dream" do you need? A four car garage? A media room? 5 Bedrooms?
A chandelier hanging above your entry way as a means of showing off you new found "wealth"?
What is wrong with living near cities and within?
What is wrong with a Town home? A high rise condo? An Apartment?
What do you think? :shrug:
EDIT: If you agree with me, please give this post a recommendation!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5119150
26 recommendations on 3400 odd views.
Amazing that so few of the hive think this is a good idea.
CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:40 PM
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3. Sorry, but I do not agree...
My husband and I built a home for ourselves, just the two of us, at about 4200 sq. feet. We are within the zoning requirements for our town, and we love our home.
It is an architect-designed home, and one of the nicest homes on our street.
Home sizes are very personal.
My two cents...
YMMV...
cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Tue Feb-24-09 01:22 PM
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113. My wife and I and our five cats live in 272 sq feet. *
Edited on Tue Feb-24-09 01:36 PM by cliffordu
Can I have a hundred or so of yours??
*I live in an airstream. I also have an 8X10' shed.
What are you gonna do with it... Tie it to the roof ?
jmowreader (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:41 PM
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5. If I had the means, I would build a 5000sf home...
however, 3000sf of it would be the garage in which I would fix up old beaters I bought off Craigslist so I could sell them to people who needed reliable transportation but didn't have very much money.
Ideas like this are why you don't have the means to make them happen...
BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:42 PM
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6. (shrug) Unless suitably tasteless people with enough money want one...
I certainly don't intend to tell people what to buy and what not to buy.
I will tell them if there choice is utterly tasteless, however.
Did someone forget to inform me that it is opposites day ?
arcadian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:43 PM
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9. The "it's their money they can do with it what they want" crowd will be here shortly.
I agree with you by the way.
They should do what you tell them with their money , is that it ?
paulsby (79 posts) Tue Feb-24-09 02:23 AM
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50. why?
I'm for CHOICE.
the problem is not mcmansions.
the problem is that many people bought them when they couldn't afford them. their decision was based on the (ERRONEOUS) idea that markets only go in one direction - up.
that is true in NO market on earth.
maybe i am taking this a bit personally, since I am closing on a 3200 ft home that many would consider a mcmansion. hey, i saved. i waited for the crash. i am keeping cash on the side, and i am putting over 20% down. i am also pleased at a 4.66% 30 yr rate.
that's my decision, and i'm not going to feel guilty about it.
do i NEED that much house? no. it IS suburbia, but i like suburbia. i don't want excitement where i live. i want tranquility, good neighbors, low crime, a big yard to play in, a garden to grow, etc.
there is NOTHING wrong with a town home, a condo, or an apartment. different strokes for different folks.
if i was single, i might prefer something else. actually i am sure i would.
i do loathe chandeliers fwiw.
I wonder....
pretty (22 posts) Tue Feb-24-09 12:37 PM
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102. And rightly so. Next you'll be telling me what type of car
to drive. It's none of your business.
*snicker*
lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:49 PM
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17. Not unless they are going to house thousands of homeless people.
:)
I wonder if lonestarnut would house homeless people inside their domicile. Sure they may not be able to house "thousands" but there has gotta be room for a few.
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Rule one for liberals is that whatever they are against, means they are against you having it..not them.
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If we can't have anymore "McMansions" then won't the existing ones skyrocket in price making the current greedy SOBs living in them even more wealthy and out-of-balance with the Little Goons' worldview?
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If we can't have anymore "McMansions" then won't the existing ones skyrocket in price making the current greedy SOBs living in them even more wealthy and out-of-balance with the Little Goons' worldview?
No.
They'll all have to be torn down and replaced with a ghetto public housing project.
Their former owners have first call as to which apartment they get.
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If we can't have anymore "McMansions" then won't the existing ones skyrocket in price making the current greedy SOBs living in them even more wealthy and out-of-balance with the Little Goons' worldview?
That is a truisim that completely escapes the idiots on the island.
They think that the "rich" are sitting on piles of cash that they can confiscate for their own whims but the reality is that wealth is held in assets that are only as valuable as the market would dictate.
Destroy that value with thier socialist greed and the wealth to fund it is also destroyed resulting in what socialism always does...everyone existing at the bottom.
Damn fools.
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lonestarnot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:49 PM
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17. Not unless they are going to house thousands of homeless people.
Do the dummies even take this nut seriously anymore?
Nice of her to grant permission for people to build whatever size house they want as long as they follow her mandate that they house thousands of homeless people.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
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Do the dummies even take this nut seriously anymore?
Nice of her to grant permission for people to build whatever size house they want as long as they follow her mandate that they house thousands of homeless people.
:rotf: :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:
But, she won't have to do that. "Let them eat cake" and all that.
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The Kennedy Compound should become little condo's?
Hollywood mansions can become apartment complexes?
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The Kennedy Compound should become little condo's?
Hollywood mansions can become apartment complexes?
Works for me!
Ted Turner's vast expanses in Montana can become summer camps!
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Works for me!
Ted Turner's vast expanses in Montana can become summer camps!
and petting zoo's and trailer parks and RV campgrounds and...
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How dare you own a house (or anything else) of a size and configuration you like?! You nazi fascist bastard
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Yep, the mantra of Socialism. It's not to lift anyone up, it's to make us all equally miserable. Damn I wish we could eradicate these fools.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Mon Feb-23-09 10:40 PM
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3. Sorry, but I do not agree...
My husband and I built a home for ourselves, just the two of us, at about 4200 sq. feet. We are within the zoning requirements for our town, and we love our home.
It is an architect-designed home, and one of the nicest homes on our street.
Home sizes are very personal.
My two cents...
YMMV...
The "she-man" speaketh.