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All I am seeing here, is the insane yearly cost of recurring maintenance on an old wooden house...*shudders*

We figured out how to install gas lines appropriately. Many "ghosts" were gas inhalation induced hallucinations.

If we go by the logic in some media where the ghosts are bound to the house/property, they probably don't want to be stuck somewhere that will eventually just dissolve in the rain.

I honestly don't understand the houses going up in my neighborhood - it's getting gentrified and what is being built is so ugly. Who is buying these ugly ass houses for 1.5 MILLION dollars? If that was my budget I'd build something beautiful with a big porch like this picture, but all the "luxury" homes are boxes with big garages in front. I look at them on Zillow and they aren't even pretty on the inside.

"My house is haunted."

"You live in a ranch in the suburbs built in 1983. What kind of white bread ghost stuck around that mess?"

Since this is the closest thing I've seen to an architecture discussion on Lemmy, can I sidetrack this conversation?

I really want to talk about how I simultaneously love the Obamas and hate a lot of their style choices. The Brutalism of his new presidential library is... Imposing and unwelcoming.

Turn out haunting a house also cost some ghost buck and inflation makes haunting unaffordable.

I wonder if older houses seem more "hauntable" simply because they were built to facilitate air flow within them. Before air conditioning, homes had to be built to allow air to naturally circulate. Thought was placed into room, door, and window layouts to encourage air flow throughout the home, windows were designed to fully open, and transom windows allowed air flow even when doors were closed.

The point is that old homes were built to allow air flow. This means that there's more opportunity for doors to randomly close and other things to be disturbed by the wind. Older homes also weren't as sealed and insulated as well. They were designed assuming that some of the structure would get wet and then dry out. Older buildings were designed to undergo constant moisture cycling, while newer buildings try to seal out moisture all together. More dramatic changes in lumber moisture content means more creaks, groans, and other ghostly noises.

Simply because of how buildings science has evolved, it's possible that older homes just more readily produce "haunting" sounds than modern ones.

Haunted houses are old. There's no way McMansions will last long enough for ghosts to sprout.

Fucking ghosts better chip in paying for the upkeep, property taxes, and everything else. No one gets to haunt for free.

Say, isn't that the old Henderson place? I heard they never could find a buyer after what happened.

It's because it's now dead malls that are getting haunted. To know what's worth haunting today we'll need to wait about 30 to 50 years to see what sorts of architecture is considered spooky.

I have a relative with a haunted McMansion. They're rich, they bought a slot in a brand new subdivision, had the house built for them. We joke that it's on an Indian burial ground. Everyone's had some kind of experience there, voices in another room when you're there alone, electronics turn themselves on and off, they're spouse interacted with a demon child thing and it left marks, rooms losing electric like the power went out but other rooms on the same circuit breakers are fine, I've personally heard a bloodcurdling scream come from upstairs while I was housesitting for them...

That place is the reason I'm agnostic, and not fully atheist.

There’s nowhere close to the demand for artisanship anymore. Rich people display their wealth through expensive disposable items, not carefully made things.

That house looks like it's $3.2 million dollars.

The truth is autocad.

Curves and pillars are hard to represent architectures in computer software. What's easy is nice boxy boxes.

Eureka, CA has a ton of houses like this. It was the west coast lumber capital for a while, making a lot of millionaires who wanted extravagant wood houses

OoOoOoOoO.... I can't leave... Do you know what type of interest loan I have? OoOoOo

Small houses can be scary, too! My living room when I moved in back in October (not a joke):

And there's so much more!

I’ve tried/succeeded kinda to make this house in The Sims before lol (DaisyMarie86 - I have lots of Victorians and I’m a good builder 😋) and I can tell you why! it’s really hard and REALLY expensive!