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This has gone on for over a hundred years in the US. Victorian homes were greatly shit upon by the upper classes in the late 1800's.


Citation? Anything other than moaning about the emergence of a middle class?


Here's some of it - https://www.oldhouseguy.com/hatred-for-victorian-homes-in-19... - but it goes back further and has echoes of the same McMansion complaints (they were builder/craftsman built instead of architecturally designed, often the buyers outstripped their ability to properly maintain, etc).




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