The rich expect us low lifes to sacrifice so that they can that can fly their private jets a few miles, drve their gas guzzling sport cars and maintain their mutliple homes while we the woeking class struggle to pay for gas and food and then theyhave nerve to tell us to shut the f up about gas prices! znd food prices I say we shoul boycott hollywood and the worthless wealthy in the entertanment business!!!!
TRUTH! There is a house south of San Francisco some fella built in the 1970s from molded concrete that looks very much like that. It has passed through several owners. The latest associated it with cartoon characters and has statues and decorations representing them now. It once was just someone’s normal home. You can see it from the 280 freeway headed north. Search YouTube for “Flintstone house”.
However, McMansions, while gaudy or overdone, certainly offer more visual interest than the prison-decor exteriors of modern condos and apartments now inundating central VA. Reminds me of the plans one could order from the need a quick, cheap condo plan? handbook. Cookie cutter stuff with stiff lines, dark red, white, gray slab siding, lovely tinfoil trim, and facade of stacked crates. Stone ugly.
But, at my age, lots of stuff fits those descriptions, and I just try to live with it.
Before hitting up Hollywood, start with politicians, lobbyists and the millions of BRIBE a money they rake in to vote in their favor instead of We the peoples favor!
Crooked politicians = crooked “bought and paid for” government!
McMansions were often built in subdivisions in the suburbs, with many McMansions making up a neighborhood. The name was derived from McDonald’s because the homes were often mass-produced, overscale, and were constructed with cheap, homogeneous materials. These are only upper middle class people in debt up to their A**. They are not the real rich, but just wannabees.
Yeah. Housing is relative. There are legitimate mansions that many politicians, celebrities, and billionaires multiply for themselves. There are McMansions that are mansions in some respect, but have some kind of appearance of wealth but aren’t really fine architecture.
However, it’s all relative. We can all poke fun of the McMansions or even the finer mansions. We can complain about the wealthy. Here’s the thing, wherever we are, most of us want something better or demand that everyone live like us as though our choices epitomize the moral high ground.
Should we all be living in shotgun houses? This has been the standard of living of poor people in New Orleans. Elon Musk lives in a tiny house that is smaller than a shotgun house. I don’t think he believes that everyone should be living in tiny houses, but there are people who live in tiny houses who think that everyone should live in a tiny house. (There are people who live in mansions that think that everyone should live in a tiny house. Figure that out.)
I once visited someone in perhaps the world’s smallest tiny house in India (though a cardboard box would probably be smaller). The lady lived in it with her husband and son. They had a chest of drawers that took up half of the house. She entered and sat down. My traveling companion entered and sat down. I sat in the doorway because there was no other room. Our translator translated from outside. Should this be the standard, or should we demand that people who live in one-room homes in India get shotgun homes? It would be an upgrade for them. There are generally people poorer than you, and many of them think you owe them something. There are generally people richer than you, and many of them think you owe them something. Who do you think owes you?
Tell you what. I will sell my companies, take only enough money for my family to live on for 30 years, and donate the rest to the government. I will tear down the buildings that used to host my companies and sell the land, sell my homes, and move to Mexico, and you can tell the 4000 plus people why they are out of a job and they are paying more for things they need. I will give the 90 day notice on Monday. Then I won’t need to put up with any more of stupid people yelling about the rich, instead of the true ones to blame, like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelsoi, Elizabeth Warren, AOC to name a few.
seanfear almost 2 years ago
hmm omen?
Doug K almost 2 years ago
Come with Geothermal heating.
Out of Service almost 2 years ago
The rich expect us low lifes to sacrifice so that they can that can fly their private jets a few miles, drve their gas guzzling sport cars and maintain their mutliple homes while we the woeking class struggle to pay for gas and food and then theyhave nerve to tell us to shut the f up about gas prices! znd food prices I say we shoul boycott hollywood and the worthless wealthy in the entertanment business!!!!
Enter.Name.Here almost 2 years ago
TRUTH! There is a house south of San Francisco some fella built in the 1970s from molded concrete that looks very much like that. It has passed through several owners. The latest associated it with cartoon characters and has statues and decorations representing them now. It once was just someone’s normal home. You can see it from the 280 freeway headed north. Search YouTube for “Flintstone house”.
Farside99 almost 2 years ago
Looks like a house in Pompeii
DaveG1960 almost 2 years ago
Hot and cold running Lava…….
bobstonejr53 almost 2 years ago
You got all of that from one comic? You have some serious issues.
William Bednar Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Future site of Pompeii.
sandpiper almost 2 years ago
@Enter.Name.Here. Thanks so much. Now I have to get my brain washed to get rid of that truly ugly image.
sandpiper almost 2 years ago
However, McMansions, while gaudy or overdone, certainly offer more visual interest than the prison-decor exteriors of modern condos and apartments now inundating central VA. Reminds me of the plans one could order from the need a quick, cheap condo plan? handbook. Cookie cutter stuff with stiff lines, dark red, white, gray slab siding, lovely tinfoil trim, and facade of stacked crates. Stone ugly.
But, at my age, lots of stuff fits those descriptions, and I just try to live with it.
dwagon55 almost 2 years ago
Fred & Wilma’s summer home.
Zebrastripes almost 2 years ago
Before hitting up Hollywood, start with politicians, lobbyists and the millions of BRIBE a money they rake in to vote in their favor instead of We the peoples favor!
Crooked politicians = crooked “bought and paid for” government!
rshive almost 2 years ago
Would seem that the heating is a little tricky to control.
blakerl almost 2 years ago
McMansions were often built in subdivisions in the suburbs, with many McMansions making up a neighborhood. The name was derived from McDonald’s because the homes were often mass-produced, overscale, and were constructed with cheap, homogeneous materials. These are only upper middle class people in debt up to their A**. They are not the real rich, but just wannabees.
Realimaginary1 Premium Member almost 2 years ago
This place must be occupied by one of the record company execs who got wealthy when the Dunghill Records label got bought out.
paranormal almost 2 years ago
They’ll be buried for posterity…
Daltongang Premium Member almost 2 years ago
Oh if that had only been true.
raybarb44 almost 2 years ago
You do have to admire the central heating though…..
TexTech almost 2 years ago
You call that a McMansion? It looks like it only has a one wheel garage. A real McMansion would have a three or four wheel garage.
jim_pem almost 2 years ago
Yeah. Housing is relative. There are legitimate mansions that many politicians, celebrities, and billionaires multiply for themselves. There are McMansions that are mansions in some respect, but have some kind of appearance of wealth but aren’t really fine architecture.
However, it’s all relative. We can all poke fun of the McMansions or even the finer mansions. We can complain about the wealthy. Here’s the thing, wherever we are, most of us want something better or demand that everyone live like us as though our choices epitomize the moral high ground.
Should we all be living in shotgun houses? This has been the standard of living of poor people in New Orleans. Elon Musk lives in a tiny house that is smaller than a shotgun house. I don’t think he believes that everyone should be living in tiny houses, but there are people who live in tiny houses who think that everyone should live in a tiny house. (There are people who live in mansions that think that everyone should live in a tiny house. Figure that out.)
I once visited someone in perhaps the world’s smallest tiny house in India (though a cardboard box would probably be smaller). The lady lived in it with her husband and son. They had a chest of drawers that took up half of the house. She entered and sat down. My traveling companion entered and sat down. I sat in the doorway because there was no other room. Our translator translated from outside. Should this be the standard, or should we demand that people who live in one-room homes in India get shotgun homes? It would be an upgrade for them. There are generally people poorer than you, and many of them think you owe them something. There are generally people richer than you, and many of them think you owe them something. Who do you think owes you?
edeloriea14 almost 2 years ago
If cave dwellers made a fortune.
eric.franz.petras almost 2 years ago
Hey, it has central heating.
serial232 almost 2 years ago
Tell you what. I will sell my companies, take only enough money for my family to live on for 30 years, and donate the rest to the government. I will tear down the buildings that used to host my companies and sell the land, sell my homes, and move to Mexico, and you can tell the 4000 plus people why they are out of a job and they are paying more for things they need. I will give the 90 day notice on Monday. Then I won’t need to put up with any more of stupid people yelling about the rich, instead of the true ones to blame, like Al Gore, Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelsoi, Elizabeth Warren, AOC to name a few.