where else can you get a 4k sq ft mansion for under $300k in a developed area?

6/29/2006 2:03:30 AM

hell. oh. . .wait.

6/29/2006 2:07:48 AM

texas is awful

6/29/2006 2:13:11 AM

Texas isnt too bad, just gets really hot, and the air is really polluted.....after awhile you think that smog is fog! The homes are cheaper, but the utilities are high. I have been here about 5 months, thought about moving here, now having second thoughts.

6/29/2006 2:26:10 AM

THere are places in NC where you can find homes like that.

6/29/2006 2:50:10 AM

who wants to live in the nc boonies. much to say Raleigh or Char which aren't that cheap anyway. Texas has actual cities like houston dallas and san antonio and those are the cities that inspired this thread.

6/29/2006 2:57:55 AM

i live in a desert filled with idiots...

BUT MY HOUSE IS HUGE!!!!!!!!!!

6/29/2006 3:01:47 AM

since when did 4,000 sq ft = mansion?

6/29/2006 8:39:02 AM

I've seen 4200 sq ft homes for 330k off Leesville Road here in Raleigh. There's not that much of a difference.

6/29/2006 8:42:55 AM

500 sq ft for like $800k here

-ZiP!-

6/29/2006 8:56:44 AM

tx is great

i particularly like san antonio

6/29/2006 9:15:36 AM

i hate texas
and dallas is a shithole IMO

6/29/2006 9:27:34 AM

how is Austin, TX?

6/29/2006 9:34:24 AM

its pretty cheap living in Oklahoma/Kansas as well. My parents live in Kansas and have a 2700 sq ft house that they had appraised and was told it might sell for $140k. And its a fairly nice house. Its not brick or anything though.

6/29/2006 9:53:40 AM

i dont understand the large house = good house mentality.

6/29/2006 9:54:53 AM

Someday' I,m going to stop getting my commas and apostrophes mixed up. Ah' someday.

6/29/2006 10:45:17 AM

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"4k sq ft mansion"

There's something wrong with this statement.

6/29/2006 10:55:34 AM

^Definitely, and "Mansions" are NOT in developments.

6/29/2006 11:00:12 AM

yeah but a MANSION or a McMansion?
This is true, about living in the boonies. I went with my boyfriend-at-the-time and his family to a huge wedding in the bumfuck middle of nowhere in Ohio last summer. We are talking one stoplight, no joke, not one fastfood place, a gas station, and a grocery store not even as big as the Atrium. All the people there in his family, and most of the people in the town, have huge ass houses that are built for dirt cheap in their farm land. I'm talking 3 story huge houses with pools and basements and marble floors everywhere and stuff.

When my dad was in the Army and stationed in Ft. Huachuca, AZ, and retired, we were going to stay and build a house out there because the land is dirt cheap, but we weren't guaranteed water in 10 years, so we moved back out here. My dad's buddy/also a Sgt. Major stayed out there and built a huge ass house with a pool and a tennis court and named his street Desert Storm Drive....but he lives in the bumfuck middle of nowhere, too

Mansion

McMansion







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6/29/2006 11:10:13 AM

^^, ^^^ yeah. My parents have a 4.2k sq ft house in a development. It's far from a mansion...

When I think of mansions I think of Greenwich, CT or most of the nice parts of SoCal.. NOT a place like my folks house.

6/29/2006 11:12:07 AM

my parents house in dallas is 5k+ sq ft, and it is by no means a mansion. however, there is at least 1 house i'd call a mansion in their community...

6/29/2006 12:07:01 PM

when will people understand

having a huge house =/= happiness

6/29/2006 12:24:37 PM

No, but having a huge house with a Sony Ruby projector, full theater surround, great couch and comfy garage comes god damn near close.

6/29/2006 12:31:21 PM

^^ probably around the same time you understand

living in socal != happiness

6/29/2006 12:32:39 PM

BLASPHEMY

6/29/2006 12:32:59 PM

i'd say having the career of your dreams, living in a beautiful city, having close friends and a loving family can make up for shit that you can buy

but that's just me

i encourage anyone who thinks otherwise to move to texas and buy a big house and see how happy it makes you

6/29/2006 12:34:38 PM

some people can be happy no matter where they are if they have a good career, friends, and family.

saying you have to live in a beautiful city to be happy is the same as saying you have to have a big house to be happy.

6/29/2006 12:38:56 PM

for me, living in socal does = happiness.... but i'd be happy to live in texas too, at least parts of it.

6/29/2006 12:40:46 PM

i guess youre right

6/29/2006 12:41:58 PM

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"who wants to live in the nc boonies"

Me.

6/29/2006 1:07:26 PM

they don't like Catholics in texas, especially fundamentalist Catholics

6/29/2006 2:07:53 PM

Why don't they like Catholics there? I would think with such a large Hispanic population, there would be a lot of Catholics in Texas.

6/29/2006 2:09:42 PM

does anyone like catholics?

6/29/2006 2:12:21 PM

Texas has the third largest catholic population of any state.

6/29/2006 2:16:19 PM

I'm Catholic

6/29/2006 2:17:04 PM

me too, but i dont practice.

6/29/2006 2:23:18 PM

ditto

6/29/2006 2:28:34 PM

I used to live in Texas and I might move back after graduation if I get the right job offer.

6/29/2006 2:43:20 PM

why would one want a big ass house? just more upkeep.

6/29/2006 4:23:25 PM

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"why would one want a big ass house? just more upkeep."

it's a good thing you think so...

Quote :

"Major : English Education"

6/29/2006 4:57:21 PM

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"does anyone like catholics?"

The entire Northeast. It's lilke 90% Catholic..

6/29/2006 4:58:53 PM

if by Northeast, you mean Boston

then yes, i'd agree

6/29/2006 5:16:52 PM

^and Massachusettes, and New York, and Rhode Island. Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine, not so much.

6/29/2006 5:26:21 PM

The "P" in "WASP" doesn't stand for Catholic.

6/29/2006 5:33:59 PM

so modern style homes can't be mansions. only colonial style homes are mansions. mansions cant be built more than 1 at a time or they aren't mansions. when i say 4k sq ft mansions im not only talking about the size of the house. the quality of the house and the stuff in it is not standard. raleigh is 100$ per sq/ft at best. most places in the area are much more for average quality homes. Cary is priced as if it were a suburb of a city in the northeast

6/29/2006 7:16:33 PM

4k ft houses arent mansions

6/29/2006 7:37:28 PM

yup, they're just bigass houses

6/29/2006 9:09:38 PM

it's just more space to heat and cool

6/29/2006 9:12:49 PM

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"Someday' I,m going to stop getting my commas and apostrophes mixed up. Ah' someday."

6/29/2006 9:13:28 PM

Keep it jungle' b.

6/29/2006 9:17:16 PM