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Re:The Mega Rich Have Found an Unlikely New Refuge by briandear on Friday November 04, 2016 @02:53PM (#12874944)
Exactly correct. McMansions are expressions of middle-class "success" yet are often just "normal" cheap houses built on a bigger scale -- same contractor-grade fittings and finishes.

For example, I bet you'd rarely see actual Venetian plaster in a McMansion, but you'd see a "faux finish" version of it. McMansions are movie sets and the owners are playing a "role" of a "successful" person/family.

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Re:The Mega Rich Have Found an Unlikely New Refuge by differentman on Friday November 04, 2016 @03:08PM (#12875073)
> McMansions are movie sets and the owners are playing a "role" of a "successful" person/family.

Ah, I love that. Applies to so many people I know. Well, at least, it DID apply to them before they lost their McMansion and, in some cases, went bankrupt.

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