The Official Oklahoma Forum Chattin' Thread (Norman, Springer: mcmansions, condo, houses)

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

What is a mcmansion? I have seen that term on other forums used in a derogatory way.

Personally, I live in a mctrailer.

Starting in the U.S. stock market boom years of the 1980s, the houses now known as McMansions were a new concept intended to fill a gap between the modest suburban tract home and the upscale custom homes found in gated, waterfront, or golf-course communities. Subdivisions comprising McMansions have been developed around such communities, while others are built in pre-existing neighborhoods, either in empty lots or as replacements for torn-down structures

[karibear]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

What is a mcmansion? I have seen that term on other forums used in a derogatory way.

Personally, I live in a mctrailer.

A McMansion is a kind of snide reference to cookie cutter type expensive houses - they are basically alike, like all McDonalds are alike. They aren't usually the kind of thing you'd want to trade your mctrailer for, they may be expensive, but there's usually a lot more flash than substance, and depending on where they are, they get torn down and replaced - they aren't the kind of places built to last.

I live in a trailer too, but it's not a mc-anything. It's the only one I've ever seen that is sided with shingles, not a square inch of metal on the exterior anywhere.

[Synopsis]

Here's a typical McMansion. There are lots of these in the DFW area.

[mkfarnam]

Originally Posted by Synopsis

Here's a typical McMansion. There are lots of these in the DFW area.

It looks like a church.

[peggydavis]

To me, a mcmansion is a very large new house that is practically identical to all the other very large new houses around it. Sort of like a mass-produced mansion.

[Synopsis]

Originally Posted by peggydavis

To me, a mcmansion is a very large new house that is practically identical to all the other very large new houses around it. Sort of like a mass-produced mansion.

Yep. The following website promotes a film called "subdivide" and is about the ever increasing suburban sprawl.

Subdivided - Isolation, Community, Urban Sprawl, and The McMansion, a Documentary Film by Dean Terry

Not one block from my house there is a subdivision on a hill of about 30 houses; each and every one of them is a McMansion that cost an average of about 400K. When we moved here, that 6 or 7 acres was wooded and had one house on it. The lady that owned it passed away and her children sold it to a developer.

Typically, McMansions are huge homes that sit on a tiny postage stamp of a yard. I'll walk over there one day and take some pictures. It's disgusting, there is no character to these homes; they are just cheaply built mansions that will have to be torn down in 25 years or so. They are like giant apartments. No trees, no character, just big ugly boxes.

[Jess5]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

What is a mcmansion? I have seen that term on other forums used in a derogatory way.

Personally, I live in a mctrailer.

But, is it super-sized?

[redbird4848]

McWOW! Nice response.

Those kind of McHomes look like what you see east of Norman! I still don't think they are THAT bad.

A lot of newer subdivisions have homes that are identical. I wonder if all the people who live in them are McPeople with Mcdogs and McCats.

You want fries with that?

[mkfarnam]

Maybe they're all Ronalds relatives.

[colleeng47]

Originally Posted by redbird4848

McWOW! Nice response.

Those kind of McHomes look like what you see east of Norman! I still don't think they are THAT bad.

A lot of newer subdivisions have homes that are identical. I wonder if all the people who live in them are McPeople with Mcdogs and McCats.

You want fries with that?

very funny, redbird. love your sense of humor!