the people who build large houses like that rely on all the little houses in the area to have nice gardens and trees to make the neighbourhood nice
fuck them
Comment on Discussion Thread đŚ Tuesday 5 August 2025
Bottom_racer@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Place next door is being demolished making way for the most ridiculous new house to be built.
Going by the plans itâll be a single residence, 3 levels, massive basement w/ 5 underground car parks all for a single family. Going to be a big white box basically. Building will go fence to fence no or tiny garden. Why people opt for no garden on such a big block is beyond me. I completely understand on smaller blocks, and maybe the maintenence concerns but if you can fork out that much for a tacky mcmansion, you can afford a gardener or 10.
No space for trees which is the same that happened to the neighbour on the other side. Maybe Iâm getting old but the whole charm of the area is a shitload of big trees and nice little front gardens. Most new places going up around here have neither. If youâre lucky a few small shrubs and some synthetic lawn.
Donât care about what the place looks like really, but no green just shits me. Not sure if that makes me a NIMBY.
Shame.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Same people hate your leaves in Autumn. âMessing up the placeâ. Oh no, some nature getting about.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Once trees go bare in autumn, the only saving grace is the leaves on the ground. Looks so comforting.
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Yeah, my tree is my blind for the streetlight so it sucks in winter.
just_kitten@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
theyâre the sorts who always go âoh, I LOVE trees and nature! butâŚâ
and inevitably you can complete the sentence in your head
Taleya@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
But object and youâre a nimby
Why arseholes keep insisting on buying into gardened and forested areas just to turn them into concrete shitholes is beyond me
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
When theyâre made of rendered polystyrene I canât help but think of them as big eskyâs.
Seagoon_@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
I still canât believe that is allowed.
Did no one read The Three Little Pigs?
SaneMartigan@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
And the property developer pig built his house out of hebel and spack, when the wolf came by heâd already sold it so the wolf ate the new owners.
MeanElevator@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Years ago I was involved (working for a sub contractor) in the build of a mansion in Toorak.
The amount of money that went it was mad. Got to know the site foreman over the course of the year and the stuff he told me was ridiculous.
Seeing the house go through all the building stages, still cannot fathom where the money went. It was a nice house, but there was definitely a âToorak taxâ applied.
RustyRaven@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Well, at least it sounds like they have enough parking. Where I am itâs all two car garages that arenât actually big enough to fit two cars and driveways short enough that the giant vehicles many people have stick out over the footpath. Frustrating when you actually walk places.
A lot of people these days see to focus entirely on the inside of their house, they donât care about gardens or the neighbourhood. Just drive straight into the garage, and the living areas are usually at the back so you rarely even see the neighbourhood through the windows. Putting out the bins is probably the only time many people spend in their own neighbourhoods (which may explain the appaling state of many of the front yards around me, you donât see all the weeds when you are just driving past).
People who build like that are probably better of in a good quality apartment, there is no benefit to them having their own land.
CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Iâd hate it more if they built this monstrosity but spent most of their time whooping it up around the teppanyaki grill.
LowExperience2368@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Sounds like an area with them faux chateaus. My local council has a mandate of 30 or 35% of the land having greenery, but it sure doesnât look like people are adhering to it.
tone212_@aussie.zone â¨4⊠â¨days⊠ago
Hate people who build massive houses on big blocks and leave no space for a decent garden, but that seems to the trend now. Yes a garden is work, but so is cleaning more internal space?