And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I don't understand people and their predilections for houses like this in Northern climates. People love them big windows and sliding glass doors to the outside in North Dakota... You might as well stand outside in your underwear and burns fistfuls of hundred dollar bills.
Back when I was at Uni, a friend with rich parents invited me to stay at his folk's place over Easter holidays. When I got there I found the entire home, at Carmel-by-the-Sea CA, to be glass. It was surrounded by tall pines, so had some privacy, and it also had lots of drapery, but I found it very uncomfortable.
Sounds carried throughout the house as none of the interior walls extended up to the ceiling; I guess the idea was to make it "open living" but in reality it just meant there was no privacy. I'm glad I only spent one night there, and would never have such a house myself. Once we had left there, I was free to say that it was like living in a goldfish bowl!
High heating bills and zero privacy.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand people and their predilections for houses like this in Northern climates. People love them big windows and sliding glass doors to the outside in North Dakota... You might as well stand outside in your underwear and burns fistfuls of hundred dollar bills.
ReplyDeleteBack when I was at Uni, a friend with rich parents invited me to stay at his folk's place over Easter holidays. When I got there I found the entire home, at Carmel-by-the-Sea CA, to be glass. It was surrounded by tall pines, so had some privacy, and it also had lots of drapery, but I found it very uncomfortable.
ReplyDeleteSounds carried throughout the house as none of the interior walls extended up to the ceiling; I guess the idea was to make it "open living" but in reality it just meant there was no privacy. I'm glad I only spent one night there, and would never have such a house myself. Once we had left there, I was free to say that it was like living in a goldfish bowl!
Not classy to my way of thinking, Nor would I want it. But if someone has the money to build it and maintain it, more power to them...
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