Giant Houses in Small Neighborhoods
Austin American Statesman Article: Giant Houses in Small Neighborhoods Giant houses in little neighborhoods is almost as bad as giant houses in giant neighborhoods. And to successfully rationalize this trend as creating value to match what was paid for the lot the house sits on, takes ignoring a lot of realities. Forgetting the moral arguments where one compares house size to castle size, and how the average size new home talked about in the article is roughly five times the size of the average house in American in 1959. Or how the waste of building materials to create something multiple times the size any family needs, and then the cost of heating and cooling something many times the size a family needs; or the confusion so many Americans have of the difference between ‘want’ and ‘need’; there is the simple equation that an expensive lot with a new house comparable to a neighborhood size standard will still be worth more than the investment. Often, qui...