Daily Exasperation #7

Just one more lane...

Do we—Americans—accept that other people want to live differently than we do or keep trying to force “correct” culture and assimilation as the American Way?

I learned about spite houses yesterday. They’re on the never-ending list of things I learn daily from just being curious on the Internet—something I encourage you to do as well as you continue your exasperated knowledge journey. The entire idea of a “spite” construction is to irritate a neighboring or otherwise stakeholding landowner by blocking a view or otherwise useful characteristic of an existing structure.

This is the famous Spite Shack in Boston—a man built this thin house to “spite” his brother for using a shared tract of land for himself.

There’s something here that can be just as equally applied to other parts of the built environment, and because of my interests, we’re going…