People use two different definitions of "McMansion", to mean wildly different things. To some people, a "McMansion" is any single family house they happen to d

People use two different definitions of "McMansion", to mean wildly different things. To some people, a "McMansion" is any single family house they happen to dislike. Those are the kind of things working-class people buy on credit. (Homes in the 1200sqft to 2400sqft range). These are basically cheap disposable housing, they are popular because all people have to have somewhere to live, and this is usually the cheapest possible housing available that's still slightly comfortable to inhabit. This article is not talking about those. This article is talking about actual McMansions or just real Mansions, homes in the 5000sqft to 8000sqft+ range. They're like 2x to 4x bigger than a typical house (even when using American sizes for 'typical house'). No regular person owns these, you have to be entirely in the "wealthy" category to even begin to look at them.