A license to snoop

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I have a love/hate relationship with realestate.com. I love that I can be as nosy as I like, snooping around other people's homes unnoticed, questioning their decorating decisions, marvelling at their renovations. I hate that I can lose hours doing this. I also hate that every so often I have a grass-is-always-greener moment and consider moving house. The fact is, I don't want to move house. I don't want to deal with real estate agents, banks and removal companies. But, there it is, realestate.com, just a click away.

Once upon a time, if you wanted to snoop around other people's homes, you had to either peer through windows looking decidedly dubious, or get out and about to open homes. This required, at the very least, constant monitoring of the newspaper for new listings in the real estate pages. Now I can see more in ten minutes online than I could ever see in a whole Saturday of open homes.

I'm sure I'm not the only one guilty of doing this, but hey, I don't think I'm doing any harm. These home owners don't know how judgmental I'm being ("They want how much? For that"). They don't know that I'm questioning their decision to paint yet another feature wall. And oh... it is so much fun.

Enjoy a little slice of my obsession....

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