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What a horrible, ugly place. ]]>Feb 20th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 26th 2009 3:32AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 3:27PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 3:34PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/
The thing is, I've been to Des Moines a few times. Like the place. Cool vibe. Even some interesting architecture. But a place like this plays into the Midwestern=boring stereotype that most people have when thinking about the plains states. It's just a big tumble of bricks and wood set on a flat plot that's basically been stripped of everything but fairway grass. No thought has been put into it, and no class or taste is on display.

Des Moines deserves better. ]]>Feb 20th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 9:48PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/]]>Feb 20th 2009 5:27PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 10:14PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 10:17PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 10:45PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 20th 2009 11:15PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/
You look at the picture, and the school looks like a mall. I thought it was a mall, and I made a comment stating that it looked like a mall -- and you know what? It does. And if I was being asked to pony up nearly 4 mil for the honor of staring out my window at a mall-looking-school, I'd run the other way. Because you know what? When it's an ugly piece of prefab dung staring at me from across my lawn, I don't care if it's a school, a mall, a church, an army barracks, or the final resting place of my sainted grandmother. If the view is hideous, it ain't worth multiple millions (particularly in suburban Des Moines which -- for all its charms -- does not exactly rival Napa in the price/acre category).

In sum, Bri, lets try to be a little less literal in the future, hm-kay? Life is more fun and less embarrassing that way. ]]>Feb 21st 2009 2:01AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 21st 2009 9:50AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 22nd 2009 12:31AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/
This, Helen, was Bri's "opinion" in its entirety: "What's the difference between a school and a mall? Where did you learn to read and write, so you could respond to this article? Certainly not at the mall..."

Which I hope you will agree displays a startling lack of either opinion or basic reading comprehension. As for the having nothing better to do than hang around on blogs only to belittle people, well ... pot - kettle and all that. Luxist is certainly a guilty pleasure, but it is a pleasure, and I don't really feel the need to apologize for it. And yes, I do take a certain glee in commenting on the wasteful, distasteful, and downright ugly stuff that people far wealthier than I blow their money on. Perhaps it says something distasteful about me that the only comments I leave on this site are aimed at things of this sort --- ugly monstrosities which poison our landscape, or are designed to take advantage of those with more money than sense. I enjoy tearing down more than building up. Guilty. I'll try to be a better person in the future.

In the meantime, however, I don't really see the harm in responding in kind to comments like Bri's which -- and again, I think you will agree -- were more a hamhanded attempt at a personal attack rather than a comment. Sort of like yours was, Helen, with your misunderstanding of the word "opinion" and the way you casually insinuate that taking ten minutes out of my day to write a little blog comment implies a complete lack of social connection, human emotion, or a job. Fine. Silly conclusion, but whatever.

In the meantime, though, this is still an ugly house, its got a great view of an ugly school, and they're asking nearly four million for it. In my humble opinion, people who long for this should take the time to read a book on architecture, on aesthetics, on art, on something that will stop them from falling into the easy trap of believing that expensive = beautiful, and that the more expensive it is, the more beautiful it must therefore be.

And that, my dear Helen, is an opinion. ]]>Feb 21st 2009 11:44AMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 21st 2009 12:11PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/Feb 21st 2009 5:23PMhttp://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/http://www.luxist.com/2009/02/20/des-moines-most-expensive-house-in-foreclosure-estate-of-the-da/$20mio.

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