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Originally Posted by yuriandrade
I don't know Mexico, but upper-middle class Brazilians tend to invest heavily on their houses: good materials, good designs for both furnitures and the house itself. We are making generalizations here, but it seems the average middle-class American care less about this.
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Richer places are going to have better quality materials and design, generally. We talk about how the fake "Tuscan crap" sucks, but that's because we're picturing cookie cutter crap in Irvine like this:
But if you go to super wealthy places like Montecito or Santa Barbara, you find amazing examples of Mediterranean Revival design with top notch materials, no goofy proportions, etc. Stuff like this:
America's truly wealthy don't live in the sprawly cul-de-sacs. That's middle or upper middle class territory, and you're not going to find high design in many of those places, because that is the territory of the truly wealthy.