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Originally Posted by HiFi
So you are convinced that someone who buys a $500,000 dollar home actually thinks that they are living in a multi-million dollar one.  On what grounds do you belief this? You think that if someone can not afford stone masons, granite and hand cast terracotta, then they have no business building in the architectural style of their choice? How dare the unwashed masses think they can have ornamental columns unless they are made of pure marble or some such elitist nonsense? Is that the line? |
I'm convinced because I live in a little old house surrounded by former fields that sprouted $500k-1m mcmansions overnight and know most of the people who live in them.
And sure the "unwashed masses" can have columns, but when they can't tell the difference between a Corinthian and a Doric column or even when their "classical" column is upside down and *still* insist they are "fancy" I can't help but chuckle.
Seriously... living in a Mcmansion is like buying a Pontiac Grand Prix with Ferrari badges (at a premium price, BTW), telling everyone you drive a Ferrari... and actually believing your car is a Ferrari because that's what the badge says.
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