[volchef]

Well, in downtown Orlando there are REALLY cute old homes that were built in the early 1900s.....these are the original "cracker" homes and have porches, hardwood floors, crown molding...they're just great....however, these newby communities are just as crappy as the tract homes......a 40x80 foot lot????? gag me....you might as well live in a condo.

[Servant of the Nine]

Well, in downtown Orlando there are REALLY cute old homes that were built in the early 1900s.....these are the original "cracker" homes and have porches, hardwood floors, crown molding...they're just great...

Crown Molding? Those are not cracker houses. Cracker houses, the unfinished wood walls just run up to the unfinished wood ceiling.

By the way "cracker" houses have always been the standard country house, all over the South. They are hardly a Floriduh specialty.

You don't know what restful is till you have lain in a feather bed under a tin roof listening to the rain and the ceiling fan going "whock ...... whock ...... whock"

So9

[catpuppy]

... these newby communities are just as crappy as the tract homes....

I don't know which communities you refer to but the Seaside/Watercolor communities mentioned in the article are anything but "crappy." As for a "40x80 foot lot," you might find that small but it will accomodate a nice beach house if one can afford the million or so it takes to buy the lot.