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Originally Posted by PRICEPLUS
syracusa, I live in a Cape Cod house. The ground floor of my house has about as much square footage as the aprtment I grew up in with my eight siblings and parents. It is somewhat true that people get a bigger house and then have to get more "stuff" to fill it! I am looking to de-clutter myself. My basement is a disaster! My wife would have liked a bigger house but that comes with bigger expenses and taxes!
A greatmany folks on this site are not in huge houses nor do they want to be. I orefer the coziness of my home. I don't want to live in a McMansion that is a cookie cutter of all the others going up! I have oak hardwood floors in my house. You don't get that today! I have a one car garage and we live on a 1/3 acre. That is palatial compared to how I grew up!
Don't assume that all AMericans are the same. You need to travel the country a bit to see what it is all about! We are as diverse a group as you'll ever meet!  |
No, of course I am not assuming that about ALL.
I have seen small, cosy, high quality and very beautifully decorated American homes - where you can just feel that "homey" spirit.
But I think that the trend towards large, poor quality, impersonal, ego-stroking housing is worrisome as mentality.
I am of course aware that most people on this forum would probably not prefer that kind of lifestyle.
Maybe it is preaching to the choir - that is probably the flaw in my post.
But you never know who reads it.
