An obscenely large home (usually of at least 3,000
square feet) in suburban
America that is almost too big for its use; cheaply built from the inside out; require constant maintanence; stacked so close together in cookie cutter housing developments that you can hear your neighbor on the john; owned and occupied by pretentious, superficial
people who care more about materialism and perceived status than actual value, and spend 14 hours six days a week working to pay off the over-inflated mortgage and have no time to spend with each other and experience life for what it is meant to be. The owners literally
work themselves to
death to pay the mortgage, who also probably struggle to pay off their 20 credit cards and SUV, but don’t have any other time to live a normal life and experience what life is all about. Despite their obscene size, they are occupied by mostly an empty nest couple who think they need
like 5 bedrooms and a 3-car garage. They are built by mostly greedy developers who cram as many homes they can for profit.
But things are changing for the McMansion. They are being built less frequently and becoming less necessary as the size of the average
American household declines, as the populations ages, and as the economy and housing market go to the
dogs. Simply put, McMansions will soon be a thing of the past as
people lose their jobs, money, life savings and everything else. In my opinion McMansions represent waste, greed, materialism and comformity, and are also probably one of the reasons the third world and even some ‘
rich’ countries hate
us.
The McMansion is the epitome of waste in
America, and is nothing more than a status symbol for many pretentious suburban Americans who
work to
death trying to pay the mortgage and keep up with the Jones'.
