Hmmm. And how long is it before something like this happens here? People in Manheim Township in particular would just get the vapors:

But in North Brentwood and other small municipalities in northern Prince George’s County, mansionization comes with a twist: Some of the new homes, neighbors and town leaders say, are being used as boardinghouses for several families or unrelated people. Some are college students from the University of Maryland. Others appear to be immigrants.

“Our concern with these McMansions is they are not single-family homes,” LaVerne Williams of Lewisdale told a group of county planners and elected officials in Riverdale. “You are turning our communities into rooming communities.”

Can’t say that I’ve noticed/heard about this around here, but I wouldn’t doubt that it’s already happening. And given the housing slump/subprime crisis, this just might be the wave of the future.