who hates mcmansions? those who can't afford them, or old money who can't bear the notion that suburban doctors and lawyers can purchase a 5,000 square foot home with climate control and an intercom system?
i've never understood the fascination or the backlash. are the critics architecture buffs who are truly visually offended by their design? i doubt it. i don't know a single architecture buff, except maybe an architecture student i know, but she's only there because she wants to build things, stamp her name on it, and say "hee hee, i built that, sucka!"
are other critics actually trying to equate having a large suburban home with the "super size me" fast food trend? please explain to me how living in an oversized house ever gave anyone artheroclerosis or diabetes, or otherwise harmed someone's health.
so yeah, anyone care to explain?
if you ask me, i think it comes from the same place as the irrational hatred of starbucks - from the depths of people's asses.
discuss.
Wednesday, June 07, 2006
slightly hung over thought of the afternoon
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i hate them because they're ugly and they waste energy.
"What EM1 said, also they can be seen as symbolic of the decline of civic involvement as they allow/encourage you to wall yourself up and hide in your palace witout having to deal with your neighbors, community, or anyone but yourself."
what's wrong with walling yourself up in your palace? besides, that was already a suburban trait without the increase in average house size.
i think having a larger house would encourage socialization. ever try throwing a party in a cramped one-bedroom manhattan apartment?
i think the internet and ipods are more to blame for walling yourself off from the rest of society. if you removed the internet and personal mp3 players from the world, i think people will come out of their oversized houses bewildered and forced to speak to people. =P
but i prefer having the internet and ipods.
cramped quarters suck. large spaces where you can put pool tables, jacuzzis, and ping pong tables rule!
ah but i can only hope for a spacious loft if i stay in nyc...
some think ostentatious display of wealth is a huge turn-off. these houses also consume enormous amounts of limited resources, and i'm not of the opinion that wealth confers an entitlement to waste limited resources. it raises the cost of those resources for everyone else.
"these houses also consume enormous amounts of limited resources, and i'm not of the opinion that wealth confers an entitlement to waste limited resources. it raises the cost of those resources for everyone else."
they are also wired so if you want to heat only one floor, or one bedroom, you can. if used properly, they're actually more efficient.
now, there are people who might run the upstairs heating system, the downstairs heating system, the basement heating system all at the same time, but they're karazy stoopidt.
furthermore, you can't build these things in a metropolitan area. if there are large swathes of land in the midwest that are only populated by untended cornfields, how does building a large house on a large plot of unused land contribute to sprawl?
furthermore, you can't build these things in a metropolitan area. if there are large swathes of land in the midwest that are only populated by untended cornfields, how does building a large house on a large plot of unused land contribute to sprawl?
they're built in the suburbs usually, not in rural america.
suburbs of heehaw "cities" in square states where there is a lot of space. i haven't seen any of these things near nyc.
suburbs of heehaw "cities" in square states where there is a lot of space. i haven't seen any of these things near nyc.
HAHAHA. yeah, because a 5000 sq foot house around there would cost several million dollars. at that point, one is wealthy as opposed to 'well-off'. the mcmansion phenomenon is largely an upper middle class trend.
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