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Originally Posted by Seaver
I love history, and I love old homes.
HOWEVER, to claim there's a sudden loss of respect for history is strange to me. Those old houses were state-of-the-art when they were built. There were older models that they burned down simply for nails, they did not care for the older models, to claim that we lost that respect is just strange.
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History is about people, the places might help you understand the people, but without their stories its just an old house. Most people don't even know what their great grandparents did for a living, or even the names of all of them. Its going to get worse in that respect with people having kids so late in this country.
Old homes are nice to look at, but I'm home shopping currently and it will mostly be a version of a McMansion but with some privacy. Can't stand the back to back subdivisions myself.