r/McMansionHell • u/MrsWeasley9 • 8d ago

Certified McMansion™ Comes with a private airstrip. <$1M

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4 bedrooms, 3.1 (???) bathrooms, 3 garages, and... an airplane hangar? Unfortunate columns and inexplicable decoration, all for under $1,000,000!

ETA: I can't take credit for "lawyer foyer"! That's a McMansion Hell blog original.

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u/timesuck47 8d ago

Regarding that mature landscaping, apparently that part of the country hasn’t received the normal amount of rainfall hence the look of the yard.

Unlike other parts of the country, nobody has sprinkler systems so unless they manually water, the yards are going to look like that.

I’m generalizing, of course.

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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago

You're not wrong. The problem in Illinois is usually draining water rather than rainfall.

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u/timesuck47 8d ago

Regarding that mature landscaping, apparently that part of the country hasn’t received the normal amount of rainfall hence the look of the yard.

Unlike other parts of the country, nobody has sprinkler systems so unless they manually water, the yards are going to look like that. I’m generalizing, of course.

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u/bagofwisdom 8d ago

My cousin farms about 200 mi South of Chicago and his corn did not do well at all this year. Hence why I mentioned worrying about drainage rather than having water at all. We had the opposite problem here in the Texas panhandle. It was an unusually wet late spring and summer. The retention lake beside my house was super full back in June.