McMansions

Why do people buy these?

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I thought mcmansions were 4-5k sq ft ugly tract homes that upper middle class people bought to larp as being wealthy

for a long time after gold ownership was banned in the US people really didn't have any major asset they could put their money into that would remain fairly stable
property became the main way for people to invest, buy a big house and yoru money is safe.
eventually the ban on buying gold was listed but the cultural mindset towards property as investment was still there.
it got to the point that large companies were buying huge plots of total garbage land, building giant cheap houses on as small of a plot as possible, then selling them at a huge premium beyond what it was work.
people paid this premium because everyone thought they couldn't lose with land, but then the market bubble burst and everyone realized these properties were worthless.

>why would I buy a giant amazing house with tons of cool shit

That is not a mcmansion

they are dumb cheap and ugly houses almost always built on crappy land
literally designed for stupid people

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Exactly OP doesn’t know what a McMansion is.

People buy mcmansions because they're high square footage for the price.

What you posted isn't a mcmansion though. It's a proper palace.

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Reading this is like running as fast as Bolt and tripping at the important steps

The bird who does these is based

Oh sorry I guess they should go buy some fucking shit box apartment in a city that costs 200 times as much for 1% of the floor space

That is the general principle. They're also usually part of a subdivision and built to a standard floor plan using cheap materials - the expense arises from the quantity of house being built, not the quality.

I think what the real critique really comes down to however is that these houses are built as though they are manorial estates but don't have any of the ranches or vineyards or farms from which such estates traditionally derived their revenues. These people would be lucky to use a lawn that size a few times a year, but it occupies nearly as much space as the house.

Seething cause you will never be able to afford a house like that

I want this, but with a normal house and without the tenis place.

so land and a pool?

I actually don't mind this one - maybe I don't know architecture as well as I thought. I can recall she had an interesting article about why the roofs on these houses always end up looking like that.

people who buy these deserve to lose all their money and be debt slaves forever.
the people who buy these can't afford them either
only low IQ minorities idolize this shit

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My dad's friend lived on a farm and had a stock pond that they would occasionally swim in. It was murky water though. We're not even in gator country and I would have thought twice about getting in. Would way rather live on a lake or a pond than pay the upkeep on a pool, though.

You only win once you can manage to buy a property like that with cash.

I wouldn't mind a big house if I could truly afford it, but my dad spent probably a third of his waking hours working to pay off our mortgage and commuting so we could go to good schools - and he made a ton of money, too. I would much prefer a small post-war house with a closet, bathroom, bedroom, kitchen, and singular extra room for a couch or an office to doing that - still wouldn't happen where I live because domestic and Chinese money printers go BRRR.

i just want a place outside earshot of neighbours before I fucking kill some cunt

Location is important

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>that penis-shaped pool

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Why are you gay?

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What bothers me most of McMansions is not the aesthetics but that they're fake as fuck.

They're often made to look like they're one of these "Old World" brick and mortar homes when in reality it's an overpriced wooden home with fake brick finishing, fake columns made with some sort of foam and fake everything else. I don't know the details and how to put it into words but they're made to look like something they're not. As if their main purpose was to keep up with the Joneses. I don't know how people can feel good about living in such fake homes.

If I'm going to spend over a million dollars in a home I want it to be made of BRICK AND MORTAR AND STONE. Something that will be there for CENTURIES and I'll pass down to the next generation. Not something that will burn down to nothing if one day someone sleeps himself on the sofa with a lit cigarette on his hand.

What's with literally all detached American homes being made of wood? Is it a cultural thing? I thought you guys had real money to afford these things.

To compensate for my insecurities

>What's with literally all detached American homes being made of wood? Is it a cultural thing?
Americans essentially get confused or perplexed when the house is not made of wood. Their building codes require wooden houses. The police departments don't know how to search a stone/brick house for drugs.

I think the only place in the states that has permits for concrete homes is Florida, and just since relatively recent. They got tired of having to rebuild every time a slightly strong wind blows.

It is not such a bad idea for them to have wooden homes. They like to tear things down and build a new. In such a case, it's best that the use a renewable resource that is very cheap such as plywood.

I understand wooden houses in places where hurricanes and earthquakes are commonplace. It'll always be better to rebuild than keep living in a home you're not 100% sure is structurally sound.
>Their building codes require wooden houses.
Is this thing real? Are you telling me that brick and mortar homes are somehow illegal in most of the country? That's fucked up man. I can't believe this.

This isn't a McMansion, it's literally a mansion

McMansions are pretty comfy to be honest.

>tfw there's a ton of villas in my country older than the whole United States of Israel

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that looks like trash tbf

>Centuries old Med villa
>Trash
Back to your cardboard "home" murrican

comfy