Why do people call Michael's house from GTA 5 a mansion?

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• gravitas@pie.gravitywell.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You know a lot of normal houses with a full size tennis court and pool? 

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• SippyCup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s a luxury home, 5 bedrooms sure but it’s also a huge property in an area where property value is insane.

  It also has a pool, hot tub, and tennis court with some yard left over. It’s not a boilerplate, built from catalog “McMansion” that are common in the US, but it’s bigger than most of those homes tend to be.

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• CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because most people are poor, poorly educated and have no concept of scale.

  For 90% of humans on earth, it is so far above experience, it is practically a mansion. For another 5% the “prestige” is sufficient to bridge the credibility gap. The remainder don’t play GTA V or talk shit on Lemmy.

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• mech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  5 bedrooms
  regular-ass house

  Have you looked at median incomes in the US lately?

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  • blueduck@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    About 44% of new construction homes over the past 20 years have had 4+ bedrooms. The American Housing Survey uses categories rather than numbers, so 4 and 5+ is the most granular we can get.

    It’s a significant problem in the housing market, often called the “missing middle”, where we don’t have enough starter homes for young/new buyers to get on the housing ladder. We are only building large homes used by families who already have a lot of equity

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• JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Wasn’t this exact question posted somewhere on Lemmy last week?

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  • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes. This is either a bot farming account history, or someone reposting for internet attention/points.

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  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Their other post was taken down a few days ago. You can see the title in OP’s modlog.

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  • alzymologist@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, in different channel; the OP just should start using “cross-post” button.

    I wish there was an aggregator of comments from all cross-posted instances of a post. Can’t wait till Lemmy 1.0 with plugins thing.

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    • 667@lemmy.radio ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wish there was a way to aggregate communities across all instances, where the community name is identical, rather than having to go out and seek each and every community on a per-instance basis.

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    • Tywele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I wish there was an aggregator of comments from all cross-posted instances of a post. Can’t wait till Lemmy 1.0 with plugins thing.

      Piefed has that.

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• remon@ani.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  A mansion typically has at least 5 to 10+ bedrooms and a comparable number of bathrooms, usually spanning over 8,000 square feet.

  Where did you get from?

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• MurrayL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Not really an answer, but the definition of a ‘regular-ass house’ is very different in the UK/EU compared to the US. American suburban homes are huge.

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• blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why didn’t you include the second sentence in the bit you ripped from wiki?

  Some realtors in the US term mansions as houses that have a minimum of 8,000-square-foot (740 m2) of floor space.[10] Others claim a viable minimum could instead be 5,000-square-foot (460 m2) of floor space, especially in a city environment.[11]

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• PragmaticOne@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Why does an imaginary house in an imaginary place cause so much internal angst that you have to ask a silly question?

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• Xanthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  It’s probably worth about 2m

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  • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    It would have been at the high end of that cost. It’s a gated yard with a pool/hot tub and a tennis court in the back yard in Beverly Hills.

    On a side note there was originally supposed to be a hidden basement(?) room underneath the tennis court that you can gain access to on PC and some glitches on console. It has like a server room, jukebox, bar, and a set up for monitoring/setting up heists. My guess is they ended up deciding against adding it to the final game and left it as an Easter egg or w.e

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  • P00ptart@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    My 2 bedroom would be worth $1 mill in that location.

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• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You’re on Lemmy, we’re all filthy socialists who have no money. You need to at least try and hide the fact that you’re rich and can’t relate to people who don’t have money for even two bedrooms and for whom anything more is pure luxury and who avoid buying ANY bottled water. (One might think you’d know this by now but one would think a lot of things and you’ve consistently refuted any such assumptions.)

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Not all leftists/socialists are broke

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Lies. Possessing even one unit of your local currency instantly makes you a capitalist and brainwashes your mind to blindly believe only the Western mainstream media.

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