Tom Watson" wrote in message
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Around these parts a proper McMansion is a jumped up tract home that
sits on a half to three quarter acre lot, sells for between $800,000
and two million dollars, weighs in at about four thousand to six
thousand square feet, and looks exactly like the other fifty to two
hundred houses in its development.

(snip)


Here on Staten Island that description fits except they are built on 40 X
100' plots


In the regard of exterior detail, they are festooned with false
replicants of an earlier and more worthy age of architecture

Here they only do that to the front facade. The sides and back are square
with vinyl siding.