For at least a year, this house has been forlornly occupying a lot in the pricier subdivision next to ours.
Last week, a for-sale sign popped up, perhaps extruded by the piles of unused construction materials (jesus, but a lot of 3M products go into a new house) and waste (jesus, but a lot of wood gets thrown out). Befitting my education and station, I'm opposed in principle, practice, and pocketbook to McMansions like this one, and especially to starter castles, like this one, that sit on the worst lot in the neighborhood (a lot that, still empty, is the big blank spot across the street from the green arrow in this Google Maps shot). Still, it saddens me to see the house sitting hollow and now for sale. Someone had big dreams for this place; now they'll be lucky to make a few cents on the tens of thousands of dollars they sank into it.