Bri, where did you learn to read? Do you seriously not know that when one asks "what's the difference" one is not actually asking what the difference is, but rather commenting that the two listed items are indistinguishable from one another in the given context. Here, the context is: "things I would not want to see from my kitchen window."

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.

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