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james_davis_nicoll ([personal profile] james_davis_nicoll) wrote2025-06-02 09:04 am

Stupid but true

I like to look at online real estate listings to see how people use interior spaces. I've come to the conclusions that:

A: Few people use more than 2000 square feet effectively. Above that, they seem to run out of ideas about how to use each room*.
B: Lots of houses have gratuitous features whose purpose seems to be to make them unusable to mobility impaired people.
C: (this is the stupid one) Townhouses are fine but I hate the idea of a duplex. For some reason, having to cooperate with 50 people bothers me more than having to get along with one specific person or family.

* More libraries is always the right answer.

There was a place for sale just up the road from me whose entire basement was given over to sturdy-looking bookcases.
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[personal profile] dwight_benjamin_thieme 2025-06-02 06:46 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the initial sparks between my partner of forty-some years and I was that we both wanted to live in a lighthouse ... with at least two adjacent floors plus the obligatory ladders being dedicated library space ... and a back yard for rescue animals as well as goats and chickens. The resident Cats went without saying. I think we talked about dogs once or twice.

(Anonymous) 2025-06-04 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Braxis

Would an ex-windmill do?

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