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Spate of Identical Houses Alarms Region

By Bill Ding
Posted Tuesday, August 19, 2003

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What began as a seemingly perfect homeowner's dream has become a perfect nightmare for Jean Poole of Normal Creek.

"We believed we were getting a special, unique home of our own," she said, her voice cracking. "When we first looked at the house and the neighborhood, we saw a collection of lovely homes, all in a beautiful rainbow of different colors. But after we moved in, we started to realize that there were more and more similarities between all of the houses in the development.

"That's when it suddenly hit us like a freight train: All of the houses in our development look exactly the same," she whispered.

In an alarming trend that is scandalizing the region, a number of homeowners have suddenly discovered that they have been living in houses that are identical in every way to their neighbors' homes, except perhaps for the color of the paint.

"I think the realtor had a responsibility to point out that all of the surrounding houses look an awful lot like our house."
— Price Wright, homeowner

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Spate of Identical Houses Alarms Region
The clever use of different-colored house paints disguises the fact that these houses in fact share the very same design.
 
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