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Posted on 01/28/2007 11:48:56 AM PST by BronzePencil
What is a "mud room?"
And in doing so, drive those prices right up.
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Ted Kennedy belongs in the big house.
Hey, Beverly! What about all those homeless your "god" Bill Clinton displaced to build his Library/Massage Parlor down my the river?
Our mud room is a little room just off to the side of the door to the garage. It's where we store wet boots and shoes, hang up wet snow pants to dry and store extra supplies like bulk paper towels and the like.
It's very handy and as an extra plus I can shut the door and not have to look at the stuff. LOL
Speaking of weekenders, I know an individual with a house part of which in over 200 years old. The fireplace in that area of the house still functions; the floors on both stories have held up fine through the years; the bedroom doors are goodness knows how old and still function fine. The newer areas of the hosue are also quite old (more Victorian) and also quite functional. The newer sections were designed to match the older sections so the house looks beautiful. Now, that's a big house with character. But around it, in the once thoroughly rural neighborhood, more and more new monsters are being build for more wealthy New York City "tourists" to live on the summers and weekends. The owner of the forespoken house is also a rich New York weekender, but at least he grew up in the area and he bought a house already there.
Needless to say, the tourists not only ruin the landscape with their tasteless, but brightly-colored dream homes (one designed to look like a ski chalet), but you can imagines to crowding and traffic they cause in the village center, which is maintained in quaint, turn-of-the-last-century perfection primarily for them and their money. The natives do most of their shopping in the big box stores and supermarkets on the outskirts of town--cheap prices and a much greater variety of goods. But what are you going to do? Such small towns are only economically viable as tourist traps for urbanites who want to live in the city for it's conveniences, but also want a place to go to escape from the concrete jungle and pretend that they're gentleman farmers.
The economy, society, and technology of today encourages the big box stores and McMansions. We can decry it as vulgar and unaesthetic, but 150 years ago, people decried the main streets we now think are so quaint for destroying the old rural culture of homestead and craftsmen's stores.
Heck, my parents bought a home in the western suburbs of Chicago for $12,000 in 1964. The house next door which is smaller and frame not brick just sold for $299,000.
I linked to a pic on FR. If you wanted it kept private, why'd you post it?
According to this idiots "logic", everyone should live in a unabomber-style shack and eat weeds. What a tool.
Good guess.
A great many libs would like to see suburbia destroyed, peoples cars taken away, and everyone forced to live in tiny high-rise apartments in big megalopolises cheek-by-jowl with millions. They hate the idea of persons not being beholden to a few power-mad, big-city Dems who would like nothing more than to have more people to regulate. Libs have hated suburbia since the fifties.
Neat. Thanks.
;-)
The Breck Girl can afford help. Illegals, no doubt.
I don't understand who lives in these massive homes or who can afford them.
Ms. Beckham doesn't "understand" who lives in these homes or who can afford them? What? Ms Beckham doesn't speak these homeowners' language? Do the homeowners speak Japanese, Spanish or Farsi? Perhaps Ms. Beckham meant to say " I don't understand the mindset of those who live in massive homes, and I have never met a person who could afford one. I don't really care to journalistically pursue it further. But, continue to let me sermonize..."
That's a fact.
Is that his place?
Yes.
thanks for the picture of liberal hypocrisy
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