Rather off topic for OTB, but Virginia Postrel has intrigued me with her post on the popularity of the cable show Trading Spaces. To oversimplify, her thesis is that the show is wildly successful because it is the only one that shows the kind of homes people outside Manhattan and Los Angeles actually live in–large, ranch style homes with lots of square footage. An interesting post, which links to a larger piece she’s written for “D” magazine. Having recently moved out of a $90,000 three bedroom home in south Alabama and now paying nearly three times as much to rent a two-bedroom townhouse in the DC suburbs, I find her perspective interesting.
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