Opinion of this article from the NYT property section

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

I can't really comment, since if wanted to plunk down the kind of money they obviously did into it, I wouldn't have gone for a five-story townhouse.  Altho, if one were to build one, I agree that an elevator is a must.

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

That's really overblown.  I have my own apartment in NYC and I could easily afford my rent if I made half of that. 

I don't think it's overblown.  Well, $100 thousand only getting you a shared apartment in Queens is a bit of an exaggeration, but not by much. 

When we lived in Manhattan our apartment was a tiny one-bedroom unit.  No separate dining room, a kitchen so small that it was hard for two people to work in it at the same time, and a bathroom so small that if I wanted to close the door while I shat I had to turn sideways (i.e., the major axis of the oval of the toilet seat parallel to a line segment drawn from my left shoulder to my right shoulder.)  That apartment was 3000 per month. 

Sheesh!  The apartment I live in now is larger than that and the rent is a quarter of that.  If I'd wanted to live in someplace that cramped, I could easily find someplace where the rent is a fifth of that (or even a tenth of that if I was willing to live in a dump of a place.)

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

Fireplaces are amazing and you can never have too many of them.

It took a while for me to adjust to the concept of the fireplace.  As far as I was concerned they just took up valuable wallspace and floorspace, and provided a dangerous place for someone to bump his head or scrape a knee.  A small child or drunk father could get hurt on all those bricks and mantlework.  That's actually what I liked least about the last house we bought.  It had a fireplace.  We tried so hard to find a house we liked without one, but couldn't.  Well, we could find houses without one, but none we liked.  In the end we accepted the fact that they're always there.

Ours is cheesy, too.  It has this little sculpture that is made to look like burning wood, but it isn't actually burning wood, and you don't actually light anything.  Basically, there's a switch on the wall beside the fireplace.  It looks like a lightswitch.  Flip it and suddenly there's a raging fire.  

It's actually useful, though, when we have heavy snow days and my son and I go out and build snowmen and have snowball fights and go on the toboggan and come in soaking wet.

Yeah, I don't really care for fireplaces either, but as I've discovered in my recent househunting, they are pretty much ubiquitous once you get past a certain price point.  I have however made a point of rejecting houses with wood-burning fireplaces since I don't plan on keeping firewood around and it's a way to whittle down the list of places to look at.