On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Andy Bradford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thus said Dave Smith on Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:03:35 MDT: > > > Yes, I suppose some home buyers have *consciously* opted to sacrifice > > acreage in favor of a larger house. I just don't happen to know any. > > Two people with whom I have worked in the past purchased homes with no > yard, mostly because they didn't want to bother with upkeep. Owning land > just for the sake of it doesn't necessarily go very far, and indeed, the > property might actually lose value unless it is kept up. > > > Whatever the case, you can't deny or discount the fact that it's in > > the developers' best money-making interest to pack as many houses on > > as little land as possible. > > Yes, and you can't deny or discount the fact that consumers come in all > flavors. Some like small homes, some large; some like small plots of > land with large homes, some like it the other way. > > I'm not saying that there aren't bad developers out there, or bad > businessmen, just that its hard to generalize this kind of thing. There > are millions of people in America and its hard to believe that they all > want a lot of land with a big home. > > > Couple the developer's desire for more profit with a taste-lacking > > populace of consumers who only sees square footage and garage > > capacity, and, well, welcome to the United States. > > My dream home would be an Italian style villa in campagna (country > house) on 5--10 acres. :-) But then, who can afford to build with brick, > stone or cement anymore? I just have to put my two cents in <RANT> I have to prefix this and note that I have grown up working as a framer, and finish carpenter working for my father that is a General Contractor / Draftsman. Has anyone else noticed the quality of homes built these days. For example everything is going from, as mentioned above, brick and concrete to stucco. This holds up well in climates like Arizona, but here in Utah stucco cracks, and looks like crap after a few winter seasons. I think we are seeing the GI-Joe and Transformer trend coming to homes. Back when I was a kid GI-Joes toys where made solid with screws hard plastic and very durable rubber bands, and the Transformers where actually made of metal, but you look at the toys of today and they are pieces of crap that break VERY easily. When I walk through new homes today it drives me nuts to see where the builders or homeowners have decided to save money and go cheap. It is very much like watching a bad movie that tries to depict "Hackers", need I go on? The point that I am getting at is that many people don't care about quality anymore, but more about quantity. </RANT> > > > Andy > -- > [-----------[system uptime]--------------------------------------------] > 9:34pm up 20 min, 1 user, load average: 1.09, 1.21, 0.90 > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
