What Is a Mansion?
14th February 2019
The Antiplanner is not afraid to ask an obvious question.
“Fire Damages Del Mar Mansion,” NBC San Diego News reported yesterday. The mansion in question, the story added, had three bedrooms, three baths, and 2,242 square feet.
Merriam-Webster defines “mansion” as “a large, imposing residence.” The Free Dictionary says it is “a large, stately house.” Call me old fashioned, but 2,242 square feet doesn’t seem that large, imposing, or stately to me. Maybe compared with tiny homes it is, but even in California, most people have not yet been squeezed into tiny homes.
You can bet money on the fact that if a newspaper doesn’t like you and you have a fence around your yard it will be described as a ‘compound’.