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[quote="Guest"][quote="Guest"]http://www.cnbc.com/id/38757287 They’ve been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here’s the latest thing you can call them — History. In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of references made to the “McMansion glut” and the “McMansion backlash,” as more towns pass ordinances against garishly large homes, which are generally over 3,000 square feet and built very close together. What sets a McMansion apart from a regular mansion, according to Wikipedia, are a few characteristics: They’re tacky, they lack a definitive style and they have a “displeasingly jumbled appearance.” Well, count 2010 as the year the last nail was hammered into the McCoffin: In its latest report on home-buying trends, real-estate site Trulia declares: “The McMansion Era Is Over.” Just 9 percent of the people surveyed by Trulia said their ideal home size was over 3,200 square feet. Meanwhile, more than one-third said their ideal size was under 2,000 feet.[/quote] Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote]
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<table border="0" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1" width="100%" class="forumline"> <tr> <th class="thCornerL" width="22%" height="26">Author</th> <th class="thCornerR">Message</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Ol' Man McCrankypants</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Aug 24 2010, 6:35 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Why do you people like McMansions so much? <br />I guess thats its all about the bottom line? <br />BIGGER HOUSE= MORE TAX FOR THEM= LESS TAX FOR ME <br />You live your lives based on simple-minded equations? <br />You don't care that they don't fit in looks-wise? <br />The tend to built in their own secure, little enclaves with their precious cul-de-sacs (French for dead ends), carved out and seperated from the rest of the community. <br />What are they......................special??? <br />Pardon me for breathing your air! <br />I'm not against big houses. <br />I just don't think that you should buy up what used to be someones family farmland to plop down one of these overly-stylized behemoths in mass quantities. They take up useful land in a wasteful manner. People come here and throw some money around and VOILA!...........the developer makes a mint and then run out and do damage somewhere else. <br />I don't mind a house here and a house there...........just not a dozen or so all plopped down on an old spinach patch. <br /> <br />The suburbs are now the place where they knock down all the trees and then name streets after them!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Yeah!!! And what's with all these "horseless carraiges" everyone's so fond of? In my day, we had actual horses and carriages, and the only air pollution we had to worry about was the smell of horse-puckey!!!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Aug 24 2010, 10:57 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>me wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Why do you people like McMansions so much? <br />I guess thats its all about the bottom line? <br />BIGGER HOUSE= MORE TAX FOR THEM= LESS TAX FOR ME <br />You live your lives based on simple-minded equations? <br />You don't care that they don't fit in looks-wise? <br />The tend to built in their own secure, little enclaves with their precious cul-de-sacs (French for dead ends), carved out and seperated from the rest of the community. <br />What are they......................special??? <br />Pardon me for breathing your air! <br />I'm not against big houses. <br />I just don't think that you should buy up what used to be someones family farmland to plop down one of these overly-stylized behemoths in mass quantities. They take up useful land in a wasteful manner. People come here and throw some money around and VOILA!...........the developer makes a mint and then run out and do damage somewhere else. <br />I don't mind a house here and a house there...........just not a dozen or so all plopped down on an old spinach patch. <br /> <br />The suburbs are now the place where they knock down all the trees and then name streets after them!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Why do you hate them so much? <br /> <br />If people have money to burn, good for them. <br /> <br />BTW, a new home in Cranbury needs a 6-acre lot. Nomally, people who can afford to buy a 6-acre lot in Cranbury build a McMansion on it.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Lord...................you gave them brains, but, they refuse to use them!!!!!!!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>me</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Aug 24 2010, 10:39 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Why do you people like McMansions so much? <br />I guess thats its all about the bottom line? <br />BIGGER HOUSE= MORE TAX FOR THEM= LESS TAX FOR ME <br />You live your lives based on simple-minded equations? <br />You don't care that they don't fit in looks-wise? <br />The tend to built in their own secure, little enclaves with their precious cul-de-sacs (French for dead ends), carved out and seperated from the rest of the community. <br />What are they......................special??? <br />Pardon me for breathing your air! <br />I'm not against big houses. <br />I just don't think that you should buy up what used to be someones family farmland to plop down one of these overly-stylized behemoths in mass quantities. They take up useful land in a wasteful manner. People come here and throw some money around and VOILA!...........the developer makes a mint and then run out and do damage somewhere else. <br />I don't mind a house here and a house there...........just not a dozen or so all plopped down on an old spinach patch. <br /> <br />The suburbs are now the place where they knock down all the trees and then name streets after them!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Why do you hate them so much? <br /> <br />If people have money to burn, good for them. <br /> <br />BTW, a new home in Cranbury needs a 6-acre lot. Nomally, people who can afford to buy a 6-acre lot in Cranbury build a McMansion on it.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Aug 24 2010, 10:07 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>TackyandjumbledonLiedtke wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Ummm.... Here's your chance.... I live on Liedtke Drive.... Is there something you would like to say to me? <br /> <br />Maybe you have a problem with the enormous tax bills that we pay?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I am not the original poster. <br /> <br />I live in a modest house on the other side of town and I am grateful for the taxes paid by the residents of Liedtke Dr. Thank you.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />(brown-noser)</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Tue, Aug 24 2010, 10:06 am EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Why do you people like McMansions so much? <br />I guess thats its all about the bottom line? <br />BIGGER HOUSE= MORE TAX FOR THEM= LESS TAX FOR ME <br />You live your lives based on simple-minded equations? <br />You don't care that they don't fit in looks-wise? <br />The tend to built in their own secure, little enclaves with their precious cul-de-sacs (French for dead ends), carved out and seperated from the rest of the community. <br />What are they......................special??? <br />Pardon me for breathing your air! <br />I'm not against big houses. <br />I just don't think that you should buy up what used to be someones family farmland to plop down one of these overly-stylized behemoths in mass quantities. They take up useful land in a wasteful manner. People come here and throw some money around and VOILA!...........the developer makes a mint and then run out and do damage somewhere else. <br />I don't mind a house here and a house there...........just not a dozen or so all plopped down on an old spinach patch. <br /> <br />The suburbs are now the place where they knock down all the trees and then name streets after them!!!!!!!!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Aug 23 2010, 6:20 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">Keep the McMansions coming to Cranbury. They are great! <br /> <br />BTW, there is one being build on Old Trenton Rd.; it was converted from a 3-bedroom ranch home.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Aug 23 2010, 3:34 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>TackyandjumbledonLiedtke wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Ummm.... Here's your chance.... I live on Liedtke Drive.... Is there something you would like to say to me? <br /> <br />Maybe you have a problem with the enormous tax bills that we pay?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I am not the original poster. <br /> <br />I live in a modest house on the other side of town and I am grateful for the taxes paid by the residents of Liedtke Dr. Thank you.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Aug 23 2010, 1:41 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>TackyandjumbledonLiedtke wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Ummm.... Here's your chance.... I live on Liedtke Drive.... Is there something you would like to say to me? <br /> <br />Maybe you have a problem with the enormous tax bills that we pay?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I just wish it was still an operating farm. Then you would have been able to buy one of the smaller houses in town and your taxes would not be so bad.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />The reality is that we love our home but we do have issues. We dont love being so close to our neighbors but we also like our neighbors and in the summer there is a nice community feeling. I truly think that when the trees mature, Liedtke Drive will be a very desirable place to live... by that time, I expect the real estate cycle (which turns every ten years) will put us back where we started when we bought the place. The fact that I can send my kids to school by bicycle and walk to Gil and Bert's for ice cream makes me feel like I live in a real neighborhood... not some far off suburban hideaway that requires me to drive 5 miles to get an iced tea. Taxes are taxes... they stink no matter what.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Aug 23 2010, 12:38 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>TackyandjumbledonLiedtke wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Ummm.... Here's your chance.... I live on Liedtke Drive.... Is there something you would like to say to me? <br /> <br />Maybe you have a problem with the enormous tax bills that we pay?</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />I just wish it was still an operating farm. Then you would have been able to buy one of the smaller houses in town and your taxes would not be so bad.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>TackyandjumbledonLiedtke</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Mon, Aug 23 2010, 12:19 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Quote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Ummm.... Here's your chance.... I live on Liedtke Drive.... Is there something you would like to say to me? <br /> <br />Maybe you have a problem with the enormous tax bills that we pay?</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Aug 19 2010, 7:47 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">I like McMansions in Cranbury! They pay more tax and don't add lots of school-age kids.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Correct on the first point. Not sure what your basing your second point on -- most of the larger hoe owners I know have multiple school-aged kids. In fact, as soon as the last kid graduates they typically sell and another family with school age kids moves in, in a perpetual cycle.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Aug 19 2010, 6:27 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody">I like McMansions in Cranbury! They pay more tax and don't add lots of school-age kids.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row1"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row1" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Aug 19 2010, 2:54 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Re: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"></span><table width="90%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="3" border="0" align="center"><tr> <td><span class="genmed"><b>Guest wrote:</b></span></td> </tr> <tr> <td class="quote">http://www.cnbc.com/id/38757287 <br /> <br />They’ve been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here’s the latest thing you can call them — History. <br /> <br />In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of references made to the “McMansion glut” and the “McMansion backlash,” as more towns pass ordinances against garishly large homes, which are generally over 3,000 square feet and built very close together. <br /> <br />What sets a McMansion apart from a regular mansion, according to Wikipedia, are a few characteristics: They’re tacky, they lack a definitive style and they have a “displeasingly jumbled appearance.” <br /> <br />Well, count 2010 as the year the last nail was hammered into the McCoffin: In its latest report on home-buying trends, real-estate site Trulia declares: “The McMansion Era Is Over.” <br /> <br />Just 9 percent of the people surveyed by Trulia said their ideal home size was over 3,200 square feet. Meanwhile, more than one-third said their ideal size was under 2,000 feet.</td> </tr></table><span class="postbody"> <br /> <br />Tell that to the folks on Liedtke Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!!</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="22%" align="left" valign="top" class="row2"><span class="name"><a name=""></a><b>Guest</b></span></td> <td class="row2" height="28" valign="top"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/icon_minipost.gif" width="12" height="9" alt="Post" title="Post" border="0" /><span class="postdetails">Posted: Thu, Aug 19 2010, 2:14 pm EDT<span class="gen"> </span> Post subject: Death of the 'McMansion': Era of Huge Homes Is Over in Cranbury?</span></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><hr /></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><span class="postbody"><a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/38757287" target="_blank">http://www.cnbc.com/id/38757287</a> <br /> <br />They’ve been called McMansions, Starter Castles, Garage Mahals and Faux Chateaus but here’s the latest thing you can call them — History. <br /> <br />In the past few years, there have been an increasing number of references made to the “McMansion glut” and the “McMansion backlash,” as more towns pass ordinances against garishly large homes, which are generally over 3,000 square feet and built very close together. <br /> <br />What sets a McMansion apart from a regular mansion, according to Wikipedia, are a few characteristics: They’re tacky, they lack a definitive style and they have a “displeasingly jumbled appearance.” <br /> <br />Well, count 2010 as the year the last nail was hammered into the McCoffin: In its latest report on home-buying trends, real-estate site Trulia declares: “The McMansion Era Is Over.” <br /> <br />Just 9 percent of the people surveyed by Trulia said their ideal home size was over 3,200 square feet. Meanwhile, more than one-third said their ideal size was under 2,000 feet.</span></td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" class="spaceRow"><img src="templates/subSilver/images/spacer.gif" alt="" width="1" height="1" /></td> </tr> </table>
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