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[quote=briansd1]Interesting articles on McMansions.
In his column on Monday, David Brooks said that when the economy tanked, the “great age of headroom” — supersized houses being the main example — came to an end. “The oversized now looks slightly ridiculous,” he writes, and “social norms have since changed.” http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/07/redefining-home-in-a-depressed-market?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2010/09/07/redefining-home-in-a-depressed-market/downsizing-and-retrofitting-the-housing-market
I wished that we had neighborhoods of row houses with one-car garages in San Diego.[/quote]
Not if you had a big, loud family with a barking dog and four cars next door, you wouldn’t.
