>>1771157>>1771161People forget, shit quality was always waiting for us with natural business pressures. The bumper on Packard was an inch thick of metal, cause they didn't know a cheaper way to make it, not cause they loved their customers. Cut to any care from 1980 on, its basically paper mache cause they found the machinery to do it, and always would have done it, even 100 years early if they could have: That's business: the battle of "fuck you".
What truly mystifying is why someone would want to plop this character of the neighborhood destroying eyesore anywhere. Do you just love having your neighbors hate you? Its like they never saw Sesame Street: "one of these things is not like the others...one of these things doesn't belong".
>>1771167No, he is right. Matchsticks and spray foam of any mcmansion is an incredible insulator compared to any brownstone's.....roof anyway...they sides have active 70F massive thermal batteries on each side called "attached neighbors".
>crabsRight. High character is the enemy.
>>1772005I didn't ignore your insightful post.
>>1773180Yes. The house as fashion. "This kitchen needs to be redone! Its from the 70s!". But a soapstone kitchen from 1901 is the most beautiful thing ever. Not saying the 1970s one will be in 100 years, but make tasteful choices from the outset like someone with a brain, you don't have that problem.
>>1779804You can. They don't. America is entire invention if about the shattering of the class system, which on the back end allows inbred stagnation, at worst, but at best, ensure they alphas of our society and their well bred, well rounded children steer the culture, not the kardasianas. Glacial class moires ensure the "wrong people" (capitalist lottery winners) don't poison the culture at every level: so we get "affluent suburbs" (mcmansions), and habitual nigger fucking.
So: NO, for every Hamptons, there are 1000 pretenders, now. It didn't use to be that way. The rich policed each other.
