Comments by "" (@hewitc) on "Dream House Regrets: The Mansion That Wasn't Enough (Hempstead)" video.

  1.  @marcyking461  If you read about the Great Depression in the US in the 1930, some books describe how wealthy people with servants cut the servant's pay to make ends meet. Those "ends" included subsciptions to the Metropolitan Opera and similar. Club dues were always paid. The servants, predominantly Irish immigrants, mostly young women, were treated worse than the household dog. Money can make people think they are somehow a superior species from the rest of humanity.
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  2. Sounds like he like his yacht the best!
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  3. Everything was more manually intensive then. Apart from all of the household cleaning of such a big house, imagine all the landscape raking by hand. No leaf blowers.
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