Here's a novel idea: if you don't want to live in a "McMansion", don't buy one.
Shopping for houses isn't like shopping on Amazon. You can't just pick what you want and have it ready on a lot of your choice in two days. If the only housing stock available/being built is houses you don't want to live in, whether they're too big, too poorly built, too ugly, not oriented on the lot right, not exactly where you want it, you're going to have to buy one anyway.
> You can't just pick what you want and have it ready on a lot of your choice in two days
No kidding. And?
> If the only housing stock available/being built is houses you don't want to live in
These houses are exactly what their owners want to live in. Exactly. If the market demand weren't there, the contractors would be building something else.
Shopping for houses isn't like shopping on Amazon. You can't just pick what you want and have it ready on a lot of your choice in two days. If the only housing stock available/being built is houses you don't want to live in, whether they're too big, too poorly built, too ugly, not oriented on the lot right, not exactly where you want it, you're going to have to buy one anyway.