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Materials change, but many of the new homes are much better designed than the older homes than the SWPL crowd covets.  [b]Neither your homes nor your lives are that interesting to most people. [/b] [/quote]
I really don't understand why people keep saying that.  NOBODY's homes or lives are interesting to most people.  If any of the people reading or posting to this thread drops dead right now, no one will notice. We are all just internet nobodies.  What does this have to do with the actual argument? It's not built on caring, you know.[/quote]

These sorts of comments seem to be rooted in some form of self loathing/feelings of inadequacy. It wouldn't be surprising to learn this poster is in fact white. 
If not, it could be a person of color who feels that love for older homes comes from a desire of exclusivity. They are expensive, and rare ( not talking about tiny ramblers- think Victorians). Seeing it as another form of exclusion, and possibly ( in their mind) making their preferences and  accomplishments somehow diminished by comparison. Perhaps, they worked very hard to get out of old, decrepit housing stock, and find that now people are coming in to gentrify those areas, it can be frustrating and hurtful. Sometimes it's hard to accept that a dream that has been held up as the most important, and highest measure of success isn't someone else's dream. Even harder to accept if you feel that goal post is always being moved by a group of people you feel oppressed by.
That being said, maybe I should just head back over to pinterest and salivate over old homes, and beautiful new contempory construction. This thread is about houses, right? [/quote]

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