{"id":1931,"date":"2008-01-27T12:09:22","date_gmt":"2008-01-27T19:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2010-11-04T13:57:52","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T20:57:52","slug":"carlsbadistan-going-huge-in-homes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Carlsbadistan Going Huge In Homes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fred-biggs.jpg','popup','width=600,height=400,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\" href=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fred-biggs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/fred-biggs-tm.jpg\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Fred Biggs\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" width=\"200\" height=\"133\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>We&#8217;ve noticed that more and more people are building monster homes in Carlsbad. And some of them actually look well designed. But not everyone is happy about this according to a <strong>Barbara Henry<\/strong> story the <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/coastal\/article_564afb6b-fef0-54e7-b129-03614d841137.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a two-year period, Carlsbad resident <strong>Fred Briggs<\/strong> has watched two houses &#8212; each bigger than 5,000 square feet &#8212; go up near his Basswood Drive home. . . . One is so tall and wide, he said, that it blocks the afternoon sun from his backyard even though it isn&#8217;t next door to him. . . . Now, three more &#8220;McMansions,&#8221; as Briggs refers to them, are proposed for land north of his 2,000-square-foot, Spanish-style home in Old Carlsbad &#8212; and he is clearly not happy about it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oddly, one Realtor said that big homes are for people who want to show off. He says people want them to &#8220;prove to others that they have been successful in life.&#8221; Really? Is that it? Maybe they just have big families? Or, lots of furniture. Yeah, Thane did you ever think of that?<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nctimes.com\/news\/coastal\/article_564afb6b-fef0-54e7-b129-03614d841137.html\" target=\"_blank\">North County Times<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve noticed that more and more people are building monster homes in Carlsbad. And some of them actually look well designed. But not everyone is happy about this according to a Barbara Henry story the North County Times. In a two-year period, Carlsbad resident Fred Briggs has watched two houses &#8212; each bigger than 5,000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9365,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions\/9365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carlsbadistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}