Not everyone can afford or even values owning the residential equivalent of a faberge egg. Houses in California have been ugly forever anyway except those of really rich people. Houses are ugly, to varying degrees of course, unless you have a ton of money and want to spend it there. I do agree that poximity of the big houses and lack of variety too, makes them even uglier. I have an ugly house but the space around kind of fixes it up a little.
I see house as a replacement for a cave so I don’t even know why we care.Just kidding,sort of…