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Old 08-07-2012, 02:15 PM
 
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The Return of the McMansion? | Moneyland | TIME.com
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Old 08-07-2012, 02:18 PM
 
Location: ATL
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As long as we have EXPENSIVE cities we will have McMansions
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Old 08-07-2012, 02:24 PM
 
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At least the article has a picture that actually shows McMansions!

I always think it's funny when people call areas like St. Ives and Country Club of the South McMansions. No, those are plain old regular mansions.
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Old 08-07-2012, 03:32 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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At least the article has a picture that actually shows McMansions!

I always think it's funny when people call areas like St. Ives and Country Club of the South McMansions. No, those are plain old regular mansions.
Those look like regular old houses to me. Nice ones, but pretty normal.

I thought "McMansions" were either supposed to be in cookie cutter developments or large newer houses towering over their older neighbors?
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Old 08-07-2012, 03:52 PM
 
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Those look like regular old houses to me. Nice ones, but pretty normal.

I thought "McMansions" were either supposed to be in cookie cutter developments or large newer houses towering over their older neighbors?
I guess now anything that's not a 75 year old, 900sf bungalow in an "up and coming" neighborhood is considered to be a "McMansion" to some folks.....
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:10 PM
 
Location: Marietta, GA
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If the picture in the article represents a "McMansion" then we need to super size that order. Those look like pretty average homes to me. They are throwing around homes of 2,400, 2,600 and 3,200 square feet, which to me are average, especially for anything larger than a 3BR/2BA.
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:11 PM
 
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I guess now anything that's not a 75 year old, 900sf bungalow in an "up and coming" neighborhood is considered to be a "McMansion" to some folks.....
Really. I get so sick of the term "McMansion." It's snobby and just plain insulting.

Give folks some respect for their homes and their life choices. People in most parts of the world would give their teeth to have the safe, spacious and well built homes we have in America.
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:14 PM
 
Location: Marietta, GA
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Really. I get so sick of the term "McMansion." It's snobby and just plain insulting.

Give folks some respect for their homes and their life choices. People in most parts of the world would give their teeth to have the safe, spacious and well built homes we have in America.
Are you running for office?
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:31 PM
 
Location: ๏̯͡๏﴿ Gwinnett-That's a Civil Matter-County
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Wikipedia defines "McMansion" perfectly.

It originally meant...

"In American suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative for a type of large, new luxury house which is judged to be incongruous for its neighborhood." (These were far more common in other cities where older neighborhoods with small homes became the place to be (due to infill- we don't really have that here!) so people would tear down older houses on small lots and build big luxury homes on those lots, usually cutting down hundreds year old trees in the process just to be in "chicville" .)

But now after years of being a misnomer for simply "McHouse" ...

Alternately, a McMansion can be a large, new house in a sub-division of similarly large houses, which all seem mass produced and lacking distinguishing characteristics, as well as at variance with the traditional local architecture.

This article is about people not wanting to downsize anymore and this makes perfect sense.
Unless you conquer the urge to be a consumer versus being a conservor, then you will continue to accumulate blankety blank and as we all know blankety blank needs a roof over it's head too.
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Old 08-07-2012, 04:31 PM
 
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If the picture in the article represents a "McMansion" then we need to super size that order. Those look like pretty average homes to me. They are throwing around homes of 2,400, 2,600 and 3,200 square feet, which to me are average, especially for anything larger than a 3BR/2BA.
Then the majority of the homes in the Atlanta suburbs would not be McMansions by your criteria.
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