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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't get why people hate them so much to the point it becomes some religious or political movement.

I wonder if housing was cheaper around here that there would be less complaining and hate for them.[/quote]

I'm from Main Line Philadelphia and certainly have an appreciation for large estates privately commissioned and built with quality materials. Nothing against a proper mansion, but those are rarely built in this country anymore and certainly not in Washington. Unless we are talking Wesley Heights, what you are referring to as a "mansion" is cheap dry wall over wood frame covered with brick facade ( 1/2 of a brick placed to look like a brick over cinder blcok or some other cheep garbage). "stone overlay over cinder block" . It looks and feels dead and is absolutely hideous. Developers throw this garbage up and try to maximally extract as much capital out of the land. In 25 years its full of mold and half falling down…..but heck, the " developer" has made a quick buck.

So, to restate, no one is against a beautiful home, but they aren't being built.

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This is an idiotic comment. In the DC area, no matter what price you are spending, residential homes are going to be poured concrete basement and wood framed above grade. The exterior is always a veneer applied on top of the wood framing, whether this is full brick, stone, stucco, hardie plank, or cheap vinyl siding. This is true from $250k homes way out in the boonies, to $15M mansions. Of course, the work done and grade of materials used will differ, so the better built homes will have much better quality in all aspects. But the usage of veneers as a construction method is fairly universal and does not correlate with quality in the DC area. Philly area building methods may be different due to weather and building code, so it's foolish to say just because DC area building methods are different, that they are inferior. You want to see some cheaply built large homes, go drive around in Texas.[/quote]

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