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John Byrne
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 04 August 2025 at 3:16pm | IP Logged | 2
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More like Jackson's Tolkien.
Kinda looks right on the outside.
Utterly un-Tolkien on the inside.
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John Byrne
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You know how this works, Michael. Writers are trained to use buzzwords, phrases that will produce specific, predictable responses in their readers.
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Joe Smith
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From the front view, I thought it was going to be quite modest.
My good friends up the hill built their home into the side of a mountain in
the 70’s. You’d never know it was there….I wonder if it still is? Maybe on my
day off I’ll go shutterbugging.
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Puts me more in mind of a Rebel Base. They should "park" an X-Wing out front.
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Evan S. Kurtz
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Every once in a while, I see a real estate listing for, like, a castle in Ireland or Scotland, and sometimes they are really tempting.
Of course, we'd have to sell our house, and also convince our in-laws to sell their house, and we'd all have to go in on it and live together, but ... I could probably share a castle with my in-laws and not ever feel like they're encroaching my space, right?
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Dave Kopperman
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I guess that's from Bilbo's beige period.
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John Byrne
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From the front view, I thought it was going to be quite modest.••• Realizing this house is about half the square footage of my present abode. It feels positively claustrophobic! Forty years in CT has severely altered my perception of a “normal” living space!
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Michael Penn
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A couple of weeks ago the wife and I were in Newport and went to The Breakers Mansion -- 62,482 square feet of living space. Kinda big.
Honestly, though, where I live there are some pretty massive homes. My kids' friends live in some monstrosities. 20k sq ft, etc. Yeesh! My abode isn't even 20% of something like that. But to drive by these mansions and just be in the same neighborhood, when I grew up sharing a room with my brother and needing to have boarders live in the upstairs... whew. My head still can't wrap around the stunning wealth there is in some places.
Edited by Michael Penn on 05 August 2025 at 5:19pm
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John Byrne
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As I have mentioned, when I moved two decades ago I dropped from just under 6000 sq ft to just over 5000. One of my gal pals said she thought I’d get a smaller place. I said I thought I did!
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Dave Kopperman
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Michael wrote:
| The Breakers Mansion -- 62,482 square feet of living space. |
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I wonder how much CUBIC feet at The Breakers? You could comfortably display your medieval tapestries in those downstairs spaces with lots of height to spare.
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