Hey Doug

Cheers for standing up and defending your families home and their kindness. Those comments seemed aimed directly at you and had you not explained...perhaps a person would have read into her message what she most likely intended...a "full" dagger in the back   I don't know the situation you speak about but is it seems pretty(searching for a politically correct word now) unappreciative considering you and your family opened your home to another person.  There are many ways to put someone down without saying it in a very direct way and it seems that those comments were meant to do that. No need to defend anything further Doug.

Another observation, because I have many Russian friends and I have been to that region of the world many times visiting Russia, the Ukraine, Armenia, and Georgia.  Many families live together there. Many flats are not super big or super expensive. None the less they are home for someone and I have learned that No matter how different or plain or elaborate a persons home...i never comment either way about it.  To them its HOME and HOME is a personal space. Rich or poor or right in he middle..home is still home.

It is funny to me that anyone would comment about another persons home on a social website like this one. In my opinion(and it's only mine) it easba pretty RUDE comment. I wish you happy trails Doug. The fact that you are considering a summer home in Maine clearly means you can afford it...and that's alot more than most in Russia or the Ukaine could say. Real estate in the USA is expensive.