Many a family, in order to make a 'proper showing,' will commit itself for a larger and more expensive house than is needed, in an expensive neighborhood. Almost everyone would, it seems, like to keep up with the Joneses.
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Family makes a house a home.
I've lived in a big showplace house, and I never want to live again in a house that overshadows me.
There are certain people who seem doomed to buy certain houses. The house expects them. It waits for them.
Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.
We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It's a lovely place to be, but it's not extravagant.
People should buy a house to live in, not as an investment. Property has become such a national obsession - it was the primary subject at dinner parties and how many television shows were dedicated to the market. It's not good for the economy.
Frankly, people buying a home to let should not be squeezing out families who can't afford a home to buy.
I don't look at what people do with their homes in terms of money, but the social and personal value of what they're trying to do and achieve.
Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world.
Living modestly in a suburban neighborhood while trying to support four children through private school is not extravagant or living large.