McMansions

[Anonymous No.18901559]

Why do people buy these?

[Anonymous No.18901583]

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

[Anonymous No.18901684]

>>18901559
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.

[Anonymous No.18901705]

>>18901559
>why would I buy a giant amazing house with tons of cool shit

[Anonymous No.18901710]

>>18901559
That is not a mcmansion

[Anonymous No.18901714]

>>18901705
they are dumb cheap and ugly houses almost always built on crappy land
literally designed for stupid people

[Anonymous No.18901717]

>>18901583
Exactly OP doesn’t know what a McMansion is.

[Anonymous No.18901719]

>>18901559
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.

[Anonymous No.18901730]

>>18901714

[Anonymous No.18901745]

>>18901684
Reading this is like running as fast as Bolt and tripping at the important steps

[Anonymous No.18901755]

>>18901714
>>18901730
The bird who does these is based

[Anonymous No.18901760]

>>18901714
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

[Anonymous No.18901762]

>>18901583
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.

[Anonymous No.18901772]

>>18901714
Seething cause you will never be able to afford a house like that

[Anonymous No.18901779]

>>18901559
I want this, but with a normal house and without the tenis place.

[Anonymous No.18901789]

>>18901779
so land and a pool?

[Anonymous No.18901793]

>>18901730
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.

[Anonymous No.18901812]

>>18901760
people who buy these deserve to lose all their money and be debt slaves forever.
>>18901772
the people who buy these can't afford them either
only low IQ minorities idolize this shit

[Anonymous No.18901813]

>>18901789
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.

[Anonymous No.18901837]

>>18901812
You only win once you can manage to buy a property like that with cash.

[Anonymous No.18901888]

>>18901812
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.

[Anonymous No.18901935]

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

[Anonymous No.18901989]

Location is important

[Anonymous No.18902062]

>that penis-shaped pool

[Anonymous No.18902132]

>>18901559
Why are you gay?

[Anonymous No.18902147]

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.

[Anonymous No.18902181]

>>18901559
To compensate for my insecurities

[Anonymous No.18902258]

>>18902147
>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.

[Anonymous No.18902333]

>>18902258
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.

[Anonymous No.18902340]

>>18901559
This isn't a McMansion, it's literally a mansion

[Anonymous No.18902761]

McMansions are pretty comfy to be honest.

[Anonymous No.18902873]

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

[Anonymous No.18902888]

>>18902873
that looks like trash tbf

[Anonymous No.18902910]

>>18902888
>Centuries old Med villa
>Trash
Back to your cardboard "home" murrican

[Anonymous No.18902925]

>>18902873
comfy

[Anonymous No.18902960]

>>18902910
>it’s old so it’s good

[Anonymous No.18902981]

>>18902960
>>18902888
lmao poorfag trash
>what is renovation

[Anonymous No.18903007]

>>18901812
these are funny as fuck it's like someone hit "random" on an online house builder.

[Anonymous No.18903888]

>>18901772
I can tell you're a low IQ faggot buying overpriced trash because you want to look good on whatever dogshit social media you use.

[Anonymous No.18903973]

>>18901559
Most people have shit taste. People with more money aren't an exception and actually have the worst taste.

[Anonymous No.18903994]

>>18902981
So you agree that it’s shit then

[Anonymous No.18904115]

What do you live in OP?

[Anonymous No.18904116]

>>18902960
No tornado swept the wooden walls away.

[Anonymous No.18904530]

>>18901559
Money has to "trickle down" somehow. Maintaining that monster is likely giving a lot of people tidy sums.

[Anonymous No.18904630]

gotta admit, the upkeep, not knowing who even living in the place, lurking in the room etc, making yourself an obvious target, depretiation.....


yeah I dont get it either

[Anonymous No.18904631]

>>18902888
kill yourself modernist scum

[Anonymous No.18905193]

Richfag here. I grew up in a house about that size. I would never own something like that personally. We CONSTANTLY had workers around, you never felt alone and comfy. Just changing the light bulbs was an ordeal, constant landscapers and service people, maids every day, the cook, pool maintenance, pond maintenance, security guard, managing all those people. My dad had an employee that just managed his homes. It was another business. Then locally there were property managers.

I now live in a 1300sq.ft. beach houes where if the hurricane comes and blows it over I don't really care. I have no pool and my landscaper comes once a week, then I have a maid service every friday.

[Anonymous No.18905251]

If I ever make it I will have a replica of the Disneyland haunted mansion built to live in.