Fake stone

For lack of anything better to do, I drove around our small fortunate town and found a striking similarity among mid-range houses.  Who cares?  It's obvious to anyone who is observant and just curious.

The neighbors on the angle across the street redid their house exterior completely.  It must have cost a a small fortune, fit to go with their three Mercedes in the driveway.  Still, they chose to go with the fake stone on the outside first floor of the house.  Somehow that is inexplicable to us here.  So much money spent for something that is clearly not real.  Our house nearby on the angle corner is brick downstairs and the chimneys and cedar shingle up.  The house across from this one is total brick.  The other corner has this amazing house that is total real stone.

The owner of the fake stone house is a successful dentist.  Everything can be replaced.