SamuelRSmith said:
Well, I'm glad somebody read it... I was worried my horrendous OP would put people off of it (evidently, it did). The thing that really struck me in the article was the differences in how people tried to sell houses, and how they try and make the house look unlived in. I find this particularly strange, because I'm moving house in a few weeks - and the reason why my parents chose the house was that it had history and character. It's sort of like in the states you buy a house to live in, but in the UK, you buy into a lifestyle. It's sort of like, the way the house has been designed, the people who lived in it before, represent a way of life that you want, and that's partly the reason that you buy the house. |
I find it interesting too, exactly because it's difficult for me to interpret. It may have something to do with a need to divorce yourself from the past, how having a new home is supposed to be a new beginning. It's part of why my mother doesn't want to move out of our old house: in doing so, she feels like she would be abandoning the history of the house and losing everything that's gone on in it.
I've never really thought of such things. I lack the perspective to be able to see that in my own culture. It's part of what makes the article so interesting.
