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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-sQSp5jbSQ
Life Inside The World's Largest Refugee Camp (2011) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctZ80Dlch2E
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Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky-tacky
Little boxes
Little boxes
Little boxes all the same
There's a green one and a pink one
And a blue one and a yellow one
And they're all made out of ticky-tacky
And they all look just the same
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In suburban communities, McMansion is a pejorative term for a large "mass-produced" dwelling marketed to the upper middle class mainly in the United States. Virginia Savage McAlester, who also gave a first description of the common features which define this building style, coined the more neutral term Millennium Mansion.[1]
An example of a McWord, "McMansion" associates the generic quality of these luxury houses with that of mass-produced fast food by evoking McDonald's, an American restaurant chain.[2]
The neologism "McMansion" seems to have been coined sometime in the early 1980s.[3] It appeared in the Los Angeles Times in 1990[4][5] and The New York Times in 1998.[6] Other terms used to describe "McMansions" include "Persian palace",[7] "Garage Mahal", "starter castle", and "Hummer house".[8] Marketing parlance often uses the term "tract mansions" or executive homes.
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The term "McMansion" generally denotes a multi-story house that either has no clear architectural style,[9] or prizes superficial appearance and sheer size over quality, often both.[10][dead link]
The term may either refer to houses that are oversized, cheaply-built, and developed at once in a subdivision, or houses that replace smaller homes which seem far too large for their lots (such a house may even lack side windows due to the proximity to the boundaries—another related cliché.[citation needed]).
One real-estate writer explains a successful formula typically found in McMansions: "symmetrical structures on clear-cut lots with Palladian windows centered over the main entry, and brick or stone enhancing the driveway entrance, plus multiple chimneys, dormers, pilasters, and columns—and inside, the master suite with dressing rooms and bath-spa, great rooms, breakfast and dining rooms, showplace kitchen, and extra high and wide garages for multiple cars and SUVs."[11]
These houses also typically have 3,000 square feet (280 m2) or more of floor area,[12] ceilings 9 to 10 feet (2.5 to 3m) high or higher, a two-story portico, a two-story front door hall (often containing a large chandelier), a garage with room for three or more cars, many bedrooms (with some having five or more), many bathrooms, extensive crown molding and related features, and lavish—if superficial—interior features.
