Comments by "Andrew Brendan" (@andrewbrendan1579) on "Drew Gooden" channel.

I have a book about mansions of the Gilded Age and there was one house in Cleveland that had a kitchen just for making pastries. If the residents wanted to start a small bakery that would be a good idea but I find it just over the edge into ridiculous.
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@mentallyunstable1926 Hear! Hear! Many of the rooms in these houses could house entire families. I read Virginia Woolf's diary and back in maybe the late 1920's or early 30's she visit Knole, the colossal country house of the Sackville family and made a comment that all of the poor of the East End of London could be housed there. You and she were thinking along the same line.
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@chundychang I've noticed how many houses in You Tube videos are so impersonal. I can understand that some personal items such as family photos might be removed and the place tidied up before the camera crew arrives but I see places that are houses not homes. I see places where everything seems to be the same age, built and purchased and installed at the same time, nothing that has been in the family for years. When you see a house where the family has lived for decades or even several generations it's a whole different thing. I like English houses, modest or grand, where a family has lived for a long time time. Even a grand home has a comfortable, broken-in quality to it.
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Just found your channel! Great video, terrific comments and observations along with the clips from other videos. I've seen some of those other videos; those houses are something else. It's like people are trying to think of some way to spend money, they have so much of it, so they buy and install dumb things just to spend money or so the whole house is on the same level of extravagance. This stuff is interesting in a weird way but I'm reminded of a line that Barbra Streisand had in the movie "The Way We Were": "Decadent and disgusting". I'm also reminded of Spencer and Katrina Trask, the wealthy couple who turned their estate Yaddo into a retreat for writer's and painters and who decided to give away their fortune by helping others. If i were enormously rich I'd have a pleasant home or apartment and it would be more fun helping people with medical bills or a new roof or paying their rent or getting someone a new car and paying for the insurance so they can become self-sufficient after a while. That would sure be better and more enjoyable than a home theater with motion-sensitive lighting.
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