Conn. home 20-times larger than average
At nearly 50,900 square feet, the Chase home will be slightly larger than billionaire Bill Gates' home in Washington, about 4,000 square feet smaller than the White House and 20 times larger than the average-size home in America.
Yes, but CEO pay is 364 times more than their workers, so this could have been be a lot bigger.
Sociology Professor Susan Eisenhandler muses,
"Do you actually need to have that amount of space to live a good life? There are homeless people. There are impoverished people. There are serious social concerns, and we're not addressing that."
Eh, "we're not addressing that"? So along with your building permits, you need to run your house plans by your local Sociologist. Apparently she missed Mr. Chase's good deed last year, when he donated 66 miles of fiber optic cable located on utility poles around West Hartford giving residents and government buildings high-speed and wireless internet access.
