John realized he couldn't live in a house of that scale.

The rooms, though large, are not overwhelming.

It sits on an east-west axis, so the sun comes in all day long through floor to ceiling windows.

That's when I realized my house was gone.

We thought we'd buy a condo. Then we realized we really needed a house.

We're a generation away from those guys, and we have a different economic scale to live up to. Our generation is lucky if we have jobs that we like and people that we can relate to.