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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I dislike them because they tend to be architecturally bleak.  I've always liked old buildings and old houses that have lots of details like wainscoting, crown moldings, interesting doorway shapes, unusual windows (that suit the style of the house), built-ins, etc.  The houses that fall into traditional "mcmansion" definition are big without having character.  they put showy details (palladian windows, etc.) on facades that shouldn't have them, and try to impress with quantity instead of quality.
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And honestly, I don't see why a small family would need so much space.  it's really wasteful, environmentally speaking, to pay to heat and cool (and furnish and clean) all that extra space when 2,000 SF would probably be just fine for most families.[/b]

Plus it irritates me when someone puts a 5,000 SF house on a 6,000 SF lot, so there's no yard left over and the house looms over the neighbors.  Save the giant houses for giant lots.

Not jealous.  If I sold my $600K arlington house, I could buy a mcmansion (or two) in an outlying suburb.  Never.  Gonna.  Happen.[/quote]

Average number of kids in the fifties was 3.8 (from Wikipedia), down to about 2.1 now. We entertain less now, too. So a large part of our enormous house size is just to house our things.[/quote]

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