TAL Vox Assignment: Dreamhouse

This Week's Assignment:

Tell us your stories about the life and home of your dreams.

 

Here's our take on it:

Audio: Ira Presents Dreamhouse
Audio: Ira Presents Dreamhouse
This American Life

This American Life, Episode #69: Dreamhouse
What could be more American than wanting to build your dreamhouse? Meema Spadola's dad moved the family to Maine, intending to build his, by hand, alone, on the side of a mountain, in one summer. Four years later, the house still wasn't built, the family fell apart and the parents divorced. And David Beers's story of growing up in another kind of utopian dreamhouse, in Northern California during the Aerospace boom of the 1960's. Broadcast June 29-July 1 on This American Life.

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Scoobywings
Oh, easy. I think about it every day. I want acreage in the Mendocino hills. LOTS od acreage. I want to be completely off the grid. I'll have a windmill and solar panels, a well for water, and an organic garden. My house will be made of strawbale, and all natural building materials and paints. The decor will be Southwest style, with lots of tile and bright colors. I'll have a jacuzzi and swimming pool, and a huge fenced area for my two dogs to play. I can almost taste it.
freetaco
[this is good]

I had my dreamhouse a long time ago. <a href="http://freetaco.vox.com/library/post/tal-assignment-dreamhouse.html">Here's the story</a>.

GeekBrat

My parents have only been divorced for a year. They were married for 30 years. We had always lived in my grandmothers house, though she lived in her own mothers house after my great grandmother past away. After my dad left, and my grandmother was never around---the house was like a hotel. Always clean and neat, devoid of any personal touches or life force, very stale...it was just my mom and I till my grandmother decided to sell it. She didn't even come to pack up her home and move...she had my mother and cousins do it. A home she'd raised two children in, got divorced in, and had grandchildren in---she didn't come at all. My mother took care of most of the arrangments and moving plans. I remember going over a few times after I'd moved, always really excited to go "home." and then shortly after being there a few minutes...i just wanted to leave.
nothing would ever be the same.
I lived with my boyfriend for two and half years and then we ran into financial trouble. We decided to move back home although I didnt really have a "home" to go back to---so Ive in with my dad. I moved to Los Angeles County---the valley. A real city----to a small nowhere beach town girl like me. And now my dad is moving 3 hours away to live with his girlfriend.
I have to find a place to live in less than 29 days. I dont make enough money to have my own apartment so I have to rent a room. And all I can think about is really weird things like what if I have to share a bathroom with someone and one night I have to throw up and everyone in the house hears me...ewww. ridiculous things like that.
Home. I just want to feel safe again.

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