At the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal, animal facility manager Magda João Castelhano Carlos has helped develop PhenoWorld, a sort
of McMansion for rats with exercise rooms fitted with running wheels, dining areas with food and water, and experimental spaces with levers for cognition testing.
One can argue that those who sell - out will expire when their brands die down but that does little comfort as they live
in McMansions in the meantime.
Lakeith Stanfield is just trying to find the party, but he's lost
on McMansion avenue in a suburb.
Now there are people living in
McMansions with one kid and a Chihuahua, LOL.
In an effort to bump up property tax revenue, several municipalities allowed developers to
build McMansions right on top of, or in place of, sand dunes that had existed for centuries.
Everyone knows that big ticket items
like mcmansions and luxury cars eat up your money.
That's when the big house and
mcmansion trend was born and continues today.
, full (or accelerated) equity ownership, transportability (local conditions can change adversely over time), extremely efficient use of resources (when did mindless wastefulness become normalized in the US), real innovation in affordable architecture (not
green McMansions), the beginning of the end wage slavery, reduced impact on the environment thru smaller human lifestyle footprint, and a great antidote to a predatory lending system that is beyond accountability.
But while the size of it might make it somewhat green, compared to your average
McMansion at least, anyone wanting to brave the Dorset coastline in December will be keeping themselves warm with electric heating - hardly the paragon of eco-living.
More baby boomers are being lured to the city for retirement, selling their
suburban McMansions for a smaller urban home where stores, restaurants, and social events are within walking distance.
From breathing air polluted with diesel particulates and other nasty pollutants to fatalities occurred in private automobiles, Forbes suggests that many of us are placing health far behind priorities such
as McMansions, big box shopping, and congested commutes.
In Chiu's vision, suburban
McMansions become natural water - treatment ecosystems, drinking in and purifying the greywater from our megacities.
If the value of your 60 - year - old bungalow is based on recent sales of
new McMansions, you may have grounds for an appeal, says Svenja Gudell, director of economic research for Zillow.
The rest of my childhood was spent in a neighborhood of yuppie
McMansions where everyone decorated their front porches with tasteful Autumn leaf wreaths, pumpkins, and the occasional «Boo!»
See also::: Big Houses Are Not Green: America's
McMansion Problem,:: Wretched Excess Dept: A 50000 SF House and:: Wretched Excess Dept: Aspen Vacation Homes
A lot of people seem to think that this is great way to make money and they will just keep flipping houses till there
selling McMansions.
In the garishly lit living room of an abandoned
McMansion ready for squatters, James stands cocky, with wild hair and a leather jacket.
But because the land lay along the border between Israel and the West Bank, everything changed the day that Mr. Navon and his family moved into the newly - built
McMansion right next - door.
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The winner, a concept called Frog Dream, turns oversized
McMansions into multi-stage, water - purifying ecosystems, complete with clam beds in the garage and freshwater shrimp in the living room.
Not surprisingly, they want to walk and cycle to work, want to live in urban settings and don't
want McMansions.
But visitors to the wine trails on the North and South Forks could soon find more strip malls and
McMansions there, instead of vineyards.
The backdrops are subtly encoded with omens, from the stout smoking funnels of the nuclear power plant filling the horizon in one scene to the realty sign outside a model
McMansion reading: YOU DESERVE THIS.
A kitchen decked out in orange granite countertops and
other McMansion features is no place for Saveur's Best Food Photography Blogger.
And when it is built on, the land (often agriculture acreage that had been recently productive before developers arrived with their chequebooks) suffers from the
same McMansion syndrome blighting other affluent cities.
The big boys like Naked Brands boasted
monstrous McMansions in the form of customized booths that rose floor to ceiling with meeting rooms on the second floor where dealmakers could escape the sea of people flooding the floor.
Student loan debt means that college grads are staying at home longer and more grads are putting off buying homes, and those who do buy homes will likely be economizing just as empty nesters look to unload their
sprawling McMansions.
From Internet stocks fueled by margin, to
McMansions wrapped in a Fannie Mae bow, to now the justification for obscene tuition, backed by taxpayers, I get wistful for the time when we bought things we can afford, and profited from it.
When Sandy Cohen, Ryan's public defender, decides to take Ryan into his
enormous McMansion, it doesn't take long for family and «friends» alike to stir up conflict with this little interloper.
Emo The Laffer Curve «Reality» TV Droopy drawers (hip hop variety) Hack - spewed talking points on cable «news» Endlessly looping viagra / light beer / car insurance commercials Throat - singing (metal variety)
McMansions Newt Gingrich A political discourse based on fear.
They are buying the $ 500K
+ McMansions, per a recent Buffalo News article.
«We already have a situation where wealthy people live in
huge McMansions with any number of cars and a whole number of resources.
Ready for another Dreamy Dwelling Home Tour!?! We've had a two
story McMansion, a 1950s rancher, and this time we are on the hunt for a newish, one story, traditional home (in a sweet little town we've fallen in love with).
Brooks eventually offers his
rental McMansion for the following week's game night, with the winner getting the keys to the Stingray.
Upon their arrival, the family is welcomed by Eve (Molly Shannon), the syrupy - sweet realtor who sold them their just -
completed McMansion, sight unseen, in an exclusive gated community called Prestige Crest.