Someone explain the big houses in the burbs to me...
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Anonymous
| ok now three. and this one might be the worst. |
Anonymous
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To me the big house thing is almost always justified by parents who want space for their children.
And I always think, when people say this to me, about the gas/oil/electricity it takes to heat, cool, and wire up this house, about McMansion developments that take up available green space, etc. Don't you care about what kind of world your kids will inherit more than whether they have specially designated spaces for the 15,000 exersaucers, jumperoos and play kitchens that you bought them? Does.not.compute. |
Anonymous
| Well, as for the photos, the first one is good-awful hideous and does just look pretty crappy. Second one belongs in Miami or Dallas or Scottsdale and is very nouveau-riche looking. Thanks for making the aesthetic point, PP! |
Anonymous
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I live in a average size home in the burbs, 3k sq feet. I would have LOVED to find a nice one level. I lived in a small ranch and absolutly loved it. Not to mention they are so much more efficient. Obviously land is an issue, so builders go up.
If I have the land and money for a custom home FOR SURE I'd build a nice ranch that was a u shape with a court yard in the middle with large doors and huge windows looking into the court yard oasis. This is my dream! |
Anonymous
| Well, the pix look pretty good to old, bad-knee girl, but the only places I've seen such houses is in Florida, not here in the DC area. No, I'm not old enough to retire. |
Anonymous
| They don't need to be gorgeous. My point was... Do they really look like trailers????? I don't think so. |
Anonymous
| Whoa. 3K sq ft is "average-sized?" |
Anonymous
| No, not like trailers [I am not that PP] but really unappealing, ugly and/or tacky. These kinds of houses scream nouveau riche or maybe just bad taste. |
Anonymous
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We build up instead of out to help with heating costs. Heat rises. That's why single-level houses are more common in warmer climates... to help with cooling cost.
Of course, the giant new construction in the burbs negates that effect by being built out of cardboard. |
Anonymous
I'm guessing it is average, including the basement. I live in a normal dense tract community build in the mid 90s. Homes range fro 450-550K. All I know is that most homes I go in for kids bday parties and such are generally larger and newer than mine. |
Anonymous
They look like tacky ass homes from south miami or tampa. They aren't "gorgeous", but I guess we can't account for poor taste. Who wants a street sign and fire hydrant basically in their front yard? |
Anonymous
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I hate when people post "questions" about "why" other people do things when obviously they're just trying to make it clear that they disapprove. I could give a shit what anyone else thinks of my house, and I have no particular feeling about someone else living in a different type of house. News flash--different people have different tastes. But I'll play along: I just like living in a traditional 3-level house. Our house is laid out in such a way that I can hear and reach my kids easily from the main floor when they are in their rooms--as the crow flies it's much closer than in a spread out ranch. And we have a great basement with a playroom, big laundry room and easily accessible storage. We have zoned HVAC that is very efficient. To each his own.
Not to mention there's an obesity epidemic this country. We need more stairs, not fewer. I get that some people are elderly or have bad knees, but for a healthy adult it shouldn't be the slightest problem to climb a normal residential set of stairs. It is very rare to find a single family home with more than 3 levels, including the basement. |
Anonymous
I think it's the Bluth model home. |
Anonymous
| 22:13, I'm not sure who misread the OP, but I read it as "why build UP when you have lots of land to build OUT". You might be right, but at least I was not snotty in my response (about efficiency/ heat rising). |
Anonymous
Ok, I was a leetle snotty in referring to cardboard houses... 
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