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LoreOfSerpents posted:This is the most bizarre thing. Why are so many people building McMansions? We actually gave up on buying a house because it's too hard to find a reasonably-sized house that isn't a fixer-upper. Are there really that many adults in America who need/want/can afford gigantic houses, compared to people who just want 3 bedrooms? In my area developers buy the reasonably sized, not updated homes then either remodel it as cheap as possible with the new look that's everywhere (grey laminate flooring, recessed lights, tiny tiles for the kitchen backsplashes) and put it on the market within a few months, or add on as much as possible to the size (as cheap as possible) and now you're selling a 3000 sq ft 5 bedroom house instead of a 1500 sq ft 3 bedroom house.
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MomJeans420 posted:add on as much as possible to the size (as cheap as possible) and now you're selling a 3000 sq ft 5 bedroom house instead of a 1500 sq ft 3 bedroom house. So much of real estate seems to go based on price per sq. foot. It's a really perverse incentive to build huge shoddy homes.
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MomJeans420 posted:In my area developers buy the reasonably sized, not updated homes then either remodel it as cheap as possible with the new look that's everywhere (grey laminate flooring, recessed lights, tiny tiles for the kitchen backsplashes) and put it on the market within a few months, or add on as much as possible to the size (as cheap as possible) and now you're selling a 3000 sq ft 5 bedroom house instead of a 1500 sq ft 3 bedroom house. Yeah, that's what happens here, too. The flippers make sense, but how is the industry getting enough people to buy gigantic houses? You have to heat/air condition/clean 3000 sq ft. instead of 1500 sq ft. No part of that seems like it makes financial sense for the average family, unless I'm totally off base. Yet people must buy them, otherwise builders wouldn't be doing it so frequently.
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My wife and I laugh here in Orlando as we walk around the lakes just south of downtown, in which relatively small bungalows with huge yards have been bought, knocked down and monster McMansions built in their place using almost the entire property. It’s almost comical, you’ll see a small house for sale, then walk past a month later and it’s knocked down, or sometimes they’ll spray DEMO on it on large letters. Then, bam, massive eyesore built in its place and the requisite Lexii parked in the driveway, or occasionally, the modern midlife crisis mobile - an immaculate, lifted, angry eyes Jeep Wrangler with green or red circular headlights, complete with snorkel and winch.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:I have an incredibly elegant solution for you and it's to go ahead and click this link:
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Simpsons Reference posted:But it can buy you love, for a couple hours
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Dik Hz posted:Is there a way to also block the posts of people quoting people you have on ignore? If there was, yospos wouldn't have to have its series of pictures telling folks not to quote stymie
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McMansions are distilled BWM. Do we have a thread about them? Can we have a McMansion theme week?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:McMansions are distilled BWM. Do we have a thread about them? Can we have a McMansion theme week? Required reading: https://mcmansionhell.com Bonus pics:  
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Vox Nihili posted:Required reading: https://mcmansionhell.com This website is amazing and will ruin your ability to Not Notice Bad Architecture
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Dik Hz posted:Is there a way to also block the posts of people quoting people you have on ignore? You have to do some really gross scripting in greasemonkey or something similarly low level. I tried it and it wasn’t worth the hassle, people posting that badly often spend a lot of time unable to post.
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Uber’s arbitration clause backfires hilariously and Uber has to pay a non refundable $1500 up front each time.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:McMansions are distilled BWM. Do we have a thread about them? Can we have a McMansion theme week? Crappy Construction Tales: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3431884
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Who could have possibly seen this coming?quote:Binance says more than $40 million in bitcoin stolen in ‘large scale’ hack https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/07/binance-breach/
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If bitcoin is such a stable store of value why are these breach amounts always reported in filthy fiat USD?
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Midjack posted:Uber’s arbitration clause backfires hilariously and Uber has to pay a non refundable $1500 up front each time. This rules.
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gently caress yes, I love seeing these horrible companies get their poo poo kicked in.
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SpartanIvy posted:gently caress yes, I love seeing these horrible companies get their poo poo kicked in. You'll probably get to see some more Friday
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Midjack posted:Uber’s arbitration clause backfires hilariously and Uber has to pay a non refundable $1500 up front each time. Not surprising at all. I am guessing the class action was not going to cost $19M in legal fees...
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I'd guess a fair amount more than $19 million
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MomJeans420 posted:I'd guess a fair amount more than $19 million article negates this
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Trreeeeeee laawwwwwwww (and none of that fake poo poo on Reddit this time): California couple to pay nearly $600,000 for uprooting tree quote:Sonoma, Calif. – A California judge ordered a couple to pay nearly $600,000 for uprooting a 180-year-old oak tree that later died and causing other damage to a protected property about an hour north of San Francisco. RIP: 
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Vox Nihili posted:Required reading: https://mcmansionhell.com That’s a great blog, but it gets repetitive since McMansions are so repetitive. There’s only so many huge rear end roof chins or off center windows you can highlight. She reprinted another blog’s article on circa 1900 Sears catalog homes and how to identify them in your town which was really good.
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Sirotan posted:Trreeeeeee laawwwwwwww (and none of that fake poo poo on Reddit this time): Day late and a page short my dude, but again glad to read about these idiots getting what's coming to them.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Day late and a page short my dude, but again glad to read about these idiots getting what's coming to them. aw dangit, somehow I missed the entirety of the last page Please accept this BWM as penance: 24, baby on the way 31k secured, 25k unsecured debt quote:Please give my situation a read... $60,100 in debt which includes $13.5k on a Jeep he can't even legally drive. Is about to be a dad. 
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Krispy Wafer posted:That’s a great blog, but it gets repetitive since McMansions are so repetitive. There’s only so many huge rear end roof chins or off center windows you can highlight. It was good for a chuckle, but the blog grew stale really fast. It's just so elitist. McMansions are bad, but so is a condescending, high brow attitude about architecture and other people's houses. Pointing out obvious excess is funnier than quipping about the clashing styles of windows, which 99% of people who aren't architects don't give a poo poo about.
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Sirotan posted:aw dangit, somehow I missed the entirety of the last page This guy claims $700 a week take home at $21/hr which seems impossible but this could also be why he owes the IRS so much already.
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Sirotan posted:aw dangit, somehow I missed the entirety of the last page I love to base all of my debt load on non-guaranteed overtime.
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Thesaurus posted:It was good for a chuckle, but the blog grew stale really fast. It's just so elitist. McMansions are bad, but so is a condescending, high brow attitude about architecture and other people's houses. Pointing out obvious excess is funnier than quipping about the clashing styles of windows, which 99% of people who aren't architects don't give a poo poo about. is this "let people enjoy things," but for McMansions? The point is that McMansions are supposed to display the owner's wealth and taste, but they are actually cheap and tacky.
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The fact the fancy Greek columns in all these McMansions are just plaster and stucco was a surprise for me. The blog has allowed me to appreciate good architecture more. But yeah, it’s repetitive and would have probably already died off if Zillow hadn’t made it famous.
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Thesaurus posted:It was good for a chuckle, but the blog grew stale really fast. It's just so elitist. McMansions are bad, but so is a condescending, high brow attitude about architecture and other people's houses. Pointing out obvious excess is funnier than quipping about the clashing styles of windows, which 99% of people who aren't architects don't give a poo poo about. Good news, the author is an architecture critic and the blog is written for people enthusiastic about architecture as one of our society's forms of cultural expression. Literally architecture as art. There's no reason for you to read the blog! It documents and chronicles an architectural style in the United States that arose in a postmodern hell of opulence without meaning, mass-market prosperity; clashing styles of windows has everything to do with the vacuousness of the style and the paucity of reasoning for how and why these abominations were crafted, hence why the architectural critic who writes the site focuses on these details. It's not a terribly "fun" site to confront, because it's a good reminder that the US in 2019 deals largely with superficial consumption peddled as meaning, but it's probably good for the soul.
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Good news, the author is an architecture critic and the blog is written for people enthusiastic about architecture as one of our society's forms of cultural expression. Literally architecture as art. There's no reason for you to read the blog! It documents and chronicles an architectural style in the United States that arose in a postmodern hell of opulence without meaning, mass-market prosperity; clashing styles of windows has everything to do with the vacuousness of the style and the paucity of reasoning for how and why these abominations were crafted, hence why the architectural critic who writes the site focuses on these details. ....ok
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Good news, the author is an architecture critic and the blog is written for people enthusiastic about architecture as one of our society's forms of cultural expression. Literally architecture as art. There's no reason for you to read the blog! It documents and chronicles an architectural style in the United States that arose in a postmodern hell of opulence without meaning, mass-market prosperity; clashing styles of windows has everything to do with the vacuousness of the style and the paucity of reasoning for how and why these abominations were crafted, hence why the architectural critic who writes the site focuses on these details. whatever you say, doctor three hundred k a year
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My new hot take is that making fun of dipshit rich people and their gaudy stuff is elitist. mcmansion hell is cool and good
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lol this thread turning on itself petition for thread title change: BWM: a good reminder that the US in 2019 deals largely with superficial consumption peddled as meaning
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EAT FASTER!!!!!! posted:Good news, the author is an architecture critic and the blog is written for people enthusiastic about architecture as one of our society's forms of cultural expression. Literally architecture as art. There's no reason for you to read the blog! It documents and chronicles an architectural style in the United States that arose in a postmodern hell of opulence without meaning, mass-market prosperity; clashing styles of windows has everything to do with the vacuousness of the style and the paucity of reasoning for how and why these abominations were crafted, hence why the architectural critic who writes the site focuses on these details. Well, I think it is fun.
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The second season of This Old House focused on renovating some gigantic house built in the 19th century, it was like 20,000 square feet and every goddamn window was off center and different from all the others. They all acted like it was some kind of architectural masterpiece so I don't think we are allowed to say that off center and eclectic windows mean anything. https://www.thisoldhouse.com/watch/newton-house
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"Hi I'm Bob Villa and today we're taking a look at the Winchester Mystery House"
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Droo posted:The second season of This Old House focused on renovating some gigantic house built in the 19th century, it was like 20,000 square feet and every goddamn window was off center and different from all the others. pic of house if you don't feel like clicking: 
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Fitzy Fitz posted:pic of house if you don't feel like clicking: Whoever inspected and approved that must have been utterly mad!
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