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Where in the U.S. Would I be able to find houses like this?

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This is a wealthy house in a wealthy Toronto neighbourhood. Are there any neighbourhoods in the United States that can match this?

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Yes. Nearly every large city in the North America has houses like this. All cities are centers of wealth. I have never been to a city that doesn't have wealthy neighborhoods and beautiful mansions.
Let's see,
Does the richest nation on the face of the earth with millions of millionaires and by far the most billionaires have any have anything to match that??? What do you think?

Common sense would indicate that the answer is yes.
Obviously....If you are trying to brag about wealth in Canada you are bragging to the wrong country
There are mansions like that in Detroit.
Wow, like even in the suburbs you can find houses larger or the same size as this one. Try bragging to Mexico.
Go head gang show em some pics! BTW Toronto Nice Pics Brag ON..
There are houses in the U.S. that make that house look like a coach house.

And now for the obligatory wink: ;)

(That wink is intended to show that I don't really care that there are large houses in America and that my comment was light-hearted. It is not intended to show that I am joking and that there are not larger houses than that.)
I'd like to know one American city that doesn't have houses like that.
Now that we've laughed at the question, here's an a specific answer...

In the Seattle area, a few parts of town can match or exceed this.

Highlands. This old (100 years?) gated neighborhood is on a hill overlooking Puget Sound just north of the city limits.

Many places around the 18-mile-long Lake Washington, on both sides -- Seattle neighborhoods like Madison Park and Madrona, as well as suburbs like Hunts Point, Medina, and Mercer Island.

All of those are places with houses in the eight figures, and sometimes several multiples of eight figures.
Something like this? This is in St. Paul Minnesota.

completed in 1891----42 rooms including 13 bathrooms, 22 fireplaces and a 100-foot reception hall. Stained glass windows, an enormous pipe organ and intricately carved woodwork.

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Ummmm how about the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina? Sorry about the size...for some reason photo bucket is making the pics smaller.

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Expat said:
Yes. Nearly every large city in the North America has houses like this.
Perfect response.

There's hundreds of them down the street from me in Evanston and all up and down the North Shore.
The anti-cheesehead said:
Something like this? This is in St. Paul Minnesota.

completed in 1891----42 rooms including 13 bathrooms, 22 fireplaces and a 100-foot reception hall. Stained glass windows, an enormous pipe organ and intricately carved woodwork.

Ahh, the James J. Hill house on Summit Ave. Probably the most bizarre historic mansion in the Twin Cities. Have you ever taken the tour? It's one of the creepiest places I've ever been. I don't know how anyone could have ever slept in that house with cherubs sticking out of the wooden fixtures everywhere.
tmac14wr said:
Ummmm how about the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina? Sorry about the size...for some reason photo bucket is making the pics smaller.

The biltmore house wore my legs out after about a 8-hour tour. And I saw about 1/3rd of the entire house.

Here's an old one from Baltimore. My dad used to live 10 blocks from here-
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have you not heard of a little place we like to call the Playboy Mansion?
There's some houses likethat in the richer neighborhoods of Atlanta and in some of the richer suburbs nearby.
Here's a house called Le Petit Trianon in San Francisco. The property is a stately french inspired palacette on 1/4 acre. Currently for sale at $22,800,000


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