The social elements of urban life are interiorized into the McMansion: for example, the movie theater, the bar, the restaurant. It's not just that you have a kitchen, it's that you have a kitchen and a dining room and a wet bar and all of this, all of these things that are fundamentally social institutions become interiorized in the McMansion.
McMansion Hell's Kate Wagner returns to discuss her new Baffler article, “Bad Manors: The McMansion as harbinger of the American apocalypse.”