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Nicely done for that style -- it's not a style I like, but if it's your style, it looks well done.
" I cannot even imagine trying to keep that place clean with all those nooks and crannies. "
When you're talking 10,000-ish or more square feet, especially with a large property, you're in "full time staff" territory.
" the dreamer grows up and inhabits that dream for a while ... they find that it isn't as dreamy as they expected. "
A life truism for everything - sometimes it's about living in a mansion, sometimes it's about living in a heritage farmhouse. Sometimes it's about living in the city of 2 million, or living in a small town of 2000. Yet, I don't think it's about finding out the dream isn't as dreamy, it's about changing lives, priorities, and preferences.
To me, those changes are a normal part of life, and changing dreams is to be expected and welcomed, not regretted or resisted.
Demand is what makes prices go up, and demand goes up when population increases.
I'm not buying into what that article claims, for the most part. I've never known farmers' markets to be cheaper than grocery stores, and I've been going to them since the 1980s.
If the population in the U.S. were not increasing, prices would not be increasing. In areas where the population is decreasing, real estate prices are going down.
A lot of things are cheaper now than they used to be - especially clothes and junk made in China.
To get into the housing market, people may need to lower their expectations and live with what they can afford in order to save money to upgrade in the future. I could not afford to buy real estate when I was in my 20s or 30s, but then I was in the middle of changing my career path when I was in my 30s.
Not everybody needs to live in single family or detached housing, I think that's part of it.
Things look the same to me (desktop PC with Firefox browser).
I try to note the number of replies, and sometimes I remember that number...
It sounds like they dished out some of the soup and delivered it before they tasted it themselves. A rookie mistake.
" Toronto the husband made it and he ate it and enjoyed it. "
Ahhh, it was everyone else who hated it! Got it.
I have a deep distrust of others' home cooking unless I'm familiar with their kitchen and sanitary habits.
I don't really trust most restaurants either, judging by Health Dept. reports, along with things I've witnessed myself at some.
Ugh - I'll never forget years ago, when we were waiting for a takeout order at a very popular Italian restaurant, and I was watching the kitchen workers - one dropped a knife on the floor, then picked it up and put it back on the counter, and another had sweat dripping off his face onto the pizza he was preparing 😳
" This food was so foreign and I had no idea what it even was , so I gave it to my pet bunny. "
I hope you've gotten over this attitude.
Eating pizza is self destructive?
Actually, I think pizza is one of Nature's most perfect foods. But I have diabetes. On the other hand, life without any pizza at all is just misery. It's like those people who want to live to be very very old but in order to achieve it they give up many of things that make them happy. Not just a little backsliding like me, but completely.
I think SOM is one of those movies that is still a cultural item, in that there are still a lot of phrases and images that people refer to from it. There are lots of movies like that, dating back at least 50 years, and there are always more being added to the list. I never particularly liked SOM, but I do love a lot of the music; if it were on, it's the kind of movie I'd stream while I'm working a jigsaw puzzle or preparing dinner, etc - just playing in the background. I generally like most musicals (and love some musicals), but this is not one of my favourite musicals.
That's available free on the streaming platforms Tubi, FreeVee, Plex, and Peacock Kids, Donna - I love it too 🙂
Back in my artistic roller skating days I was cast as a roller skating nun and villager in the production of SOM we did for a Gold Skate Classic. Hundreds of hand sewn spangles is what I still remember. Our habit reversed to villager and back again. We had to switch them in the dark and had less than two minutes to do so. Getting those wimples and veils on was an experience. Thank goodness for the costume makers making them in one piece. Fun times. Coach was going through a Disney phase. We did Cinderella the following year I believe.