omg the cutsie skins drive me nuts. Carbuncle, Piasa, Moogle, Odder Otter, Chocobo, Ginger Bread, it's all hidious. I would love to escape those saccharine nightmares.
And you're right the Shirogane walls are just obscenely big.
Misleading. They say they'll consider removing your house from public neighbourhoods if inactive for a long time. Given how blizzard does things we're likely talking multiple expansions of pure inactivity, like character names. But either way you aren't losing your house, just its plot, which aren't finite so it doesn't really matter. The interview is also very loose about it and its obvious it isn't a decided upon measure at all. Try again.