World of Suck

It's happening near me, it's probably happening near you. Immense Taj Mahaj-esque, overly grandiose mansions that have been completely natural in Las Vegas equipped with life-like animated replicas of Jayne Mansfield or Liberace. E-fucking-normous mansions.

You have these lovely neighborhoods, developed over the last few generations... quaint, cosy little houses, nestled evenly and happily side by side. Each domicile felicitously placed on the property, giving a comfortable zone of green between neighbors.

NOT ANY MORE.

With the rumble of money churning in their ears, builders are obliterating these comfortable houses in favor of suburban leviathans that sit obesely on every last inch of available property, affording neighbors a voyeuristic view directly through windows less than 6 inches away.

It's not like families are getting any bigger. These homes are still being bought ostensibly by the same 4 person Dick and Jane types that had lived on the land previously. These "estates" take more power, more heat, more furniture, more carpeting. They take more effort to clean. They look out of place. They're disproportionate to the neighborhood. Ok they're just fugly.

Apparently there's no concept of 'architecture' any more. Just cram the biggest box, with lots of waste-of-space ceilings, fake Cistine ceilings with 'top of the line Home Depot Special' chandeliers dangling precipitously 25' over the heat-leeching stairways.

I still look admiringly at the 'modern ranches' with the simply stated Frank Lloyd Wright lines.

It's not bad enough that these builders insist on filling in every last pond, deleting every last tree. But in their construction gluttony they have to force the 'Lincon Navagator' of homes with a shoehorn into classic neighborhoods.

It's ugly. It's stupid. I really really wish they'd stop.