Can you be a liberal if you live in a McMansion?

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What is a McMansion exactly?

Well, I suppose you can be a 'phoney' 'populist'.

What does Josh22 have to do with this?

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Okay has anyone actually defined McMansion yet? I still have no idea what you mean by the term? Are you talking about the prefab/semi-custom homes, which I called barracks homes when I lived in Chicago, where they all look alike and are in very large communities or are you talking about large single-family custom homes on large lots in usually smaller communities?

The Sears houses were much more creative then the garbage they build now.

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I prefer the Sears house which came and a kit and were of various shapes, sizes and floors. I guess it was the McMansion of the 20's and 30's but you bought them through the Sears catalog.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_houses

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'20's and '30's eh? Interesting; a lot of the *style* of that Sears thing looks a hell of a lot like the style of inter-war Semis over here (with some very obvious exceptions o/c).

Well, do a google image search of "sears houses" and you get many many many dozens of varieties, from large mansions, to small cottages.

Examples :

Cottage :



Farm House :



(One of my favorites, btw)

Large House :

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I prefer the Sears house which came and a kit and were of various shapes, sizes and floors. I guess it was the McMansion of the 20's and 30's but you bought them through the Sears catalog.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sears_houses

Hmm, adjusting for inflation, that's around $15k.

Well, the house would come to your town by railcar broken down with the plans. You would have to buy your own nuts, bolts, screws and nails. Everything else was included in the kit and you had to hire someone to assemble it or you had to do it yourself. Wonderful old houses, I grew up in one.

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I really like that house in the first picture Al. Do most of them have hardwood floors?

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