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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sustainability? They're new houses and likely are much more energy efficient than most older houses. [/quote]

this is quite off topic (mcmansion hell is about aesthetics) but this argument is stupid. The alternative to building a big new 6500 sq foot mcmansion is not building a 1500 sq ft 1950s rambler.  No one is building the latter. Its building SMALLER new units. In many areas (esp in NoVa) the alternative, absent SFH only zoning, would be several more units on the lot - either THs or a multifamily building.  That would provide more housing in desirable places (so helping with economic segregation, at least in some places) and with sustainability (fewer sq ft per person would be less energy per person, plus more people closer to transit/jobs)[/quote]

If you live in NOVA you'd already know there's plenty of cramped infills of 3-4k sqft houses jammed on tiny lots. What is your point?

Rich people have always built big new houses. This is nothing new. Remember the robber barons?

American real estate isn't meant to be a socialist dream where you tell other people the morally correct way to live. Never has been and never will be.

Anyway, these good homeowners of Great Falls and Potomac are already taking big depreciation on their home values. [/quote]

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