Checking out of "Hotel America"

[Khuutra]

Kasz216 said:

Khuutra said:

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.

I think the reason is simple.

Suburbanism....

the great expansion and sprawl. 

The better houses were in the neighberhoods being built... and still are for that matter.

Therefore the better houses were those that nobody had lived in before.

It's still going on, with neighberhoods getting destoryed to make better neighberhoods for the rich, then the middle class get in to the old rich neighberhoods and the poor into the middle class etc.

That and often times in childhood I knew i read stories and saw stories about people who had their "Perfect house" planned out that they were going to build.

That might be true, but it's not so for my hometown: I live a few miles outside of a town that has a population of six thousand people.