How the other half lives . . .

[Selkie]

I fall into the "each to his/her own" crowd, although I do agree w/Mimi's point about social responsibility.

Always find it amusing when people have to compare their homes/possessions w/mine ("my house is bigger than yours is, nah nah nah!"). As if I'm a loser for choosing that simple is better for me. I just ignore it, change the subject. Actually, it's kind of sad when someone puts so much value on material possessions because those can disappear in the blink of an eye.

I thought smaller homes were becoming chic for those to whom things like that matter?

Our house is very small -- 2 br, one bath but a toilet in the basement, next to the dryer -- built in 1940. We consider ourselves fortunate to have purchased it before the big real estate boom. There is a lot of infill in our neighborhood, which is distressing. They tear down these solid, brick on brick constructed homes to put up big plasterboard mcmansions that don't fit in w/the surrounding homes. I love the older pre-war/ww2 era homes, imagine the folks who lived in them, kids raised in them, etc.

[divingbiker]

Our house is very small -- 2 br, one bath but a toilet in the basement, next to the dryer -- built in 1940. We consider ourselves fortunate to have purchased it before the big real estate boom... I love the older pre-war/ww2 era homes, imagine the folks who lived in them, kids raised in them, etc.

Hijack here--I could have written this, down to the size of the house and when I bought it. I bought my tiny house from an elderly woman who had lived there (and smoked, ick) for 40 years. She and her husband raised their son there.

A storage area under the screened porch was padlocked when I bought the place. After about 5 years, I cut off the padlock and found the son's hideout. He had a desk and chair, light, carpet, fixed up very cute. I found two plastic bodybuilder figurines and a 50s era girlie magazine. His name was drawn in the concrete floor.

When I moved in, the neighborhood was full of elderly people who had lived there for years. Now they've all died, and I'm the old-timer on the block.