I understand the cost-benefit calculations to the builders, but why do the buyers go for them? Why would anyone with that kind of money buy them? I know three people who have one, one is the client I had the big case with, he had a lot of money all of a sudden, and he is disabled. It's just a waste of money, I think, but it's his money. Maybe it's his way of compensating for what was done to him. The other two are owned by people whose kids went to school with Benjamin, the fathers are corporate executives who just moved into the area, the mothers are stay-at-home moms, and the houses look like showcases, but we had nothing in common except kids so I never really talked to them. I made friends with some other parents, one mother who teaches Russian history at George Mason University, one mother who used to be a social worker, and is now a librarian, one mother who's a substitute teacher, one couple where the father is a computer programmer and the mother is a stay-at-home mom but is into quilting. All people with occupations and interests, and none of them lived in McMansions. The mothers of the kids who lived in the McMansions never had anything of interest to say, and the fathers were never around.
I know it's too small a sample to draw a valid generalization from. |
