Future of American Dream 🏡

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• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  ✅ Lawn

  ✅ Driveway that fits two cars

  ✅ Two baths

  ✅ Not sharing walls with neighbor

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• zyratoxx@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  To me, a european, those urban areas packed with the same house over and over again always seem so depressing and boring. Is there any variety or does it look like this for kilometers miles?

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I agree, and these houses look way too small and overpriced for a comfortable family setting, but stating that that identical homes packed next to each other is purely an American thing is disingenuous. It’s a byproduct of capitalism, which supersedes national borders

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    • ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      In Chicago there is one block just north of Wrigley Field that was a demo for a planned community decades ago. Each of the 10 or so connected houses on one side of the street are all different. The opposite side of the street is identical, but mirrored. That means the northernmost house on the west side of the street is identical to the southernmost house on the east side of the street. The effect is that it looks like a very unique and natural community in spite of being completely planned and regimented.

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    • ohlaph@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It seems like a huge waste of vertical space. If they condensed all of that into a small 8-10 story building, they could create green spaces all around it for everyone to enjoy.

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  • ComradePorkRoll@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not only is it boring, it’s made in the shittiest way possible. It’s the American way, after all. You want properly installed outlets? What are you, some sort of royalty or something? Properly sealed windows? Look at Mrs. Moneybags over here. The siding is falling off the house? What did you expect from a $350k home?

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  • sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It really just keeps on going. It’s hell

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  • soviettaters@lemm.ee ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    This isn’t what most houses are like in the US. Sure, there’s a lot like them, but places that don’t have a strong HOA (most places) become very diverse after a while. My home was built in the 60s and was initially very similar to the ones around it. Over time each house gets changed little by little and every house becomes unique.

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• netburnr@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why would you want 2 baths for a single bedroom house…

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  • ryathal@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can have a separate half bath for guests.

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• neocamel@lemmy.studio ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  What is amazing is that people would rather live like this, and have four feet of grass between them and their neighbors, than in a place twice as big with a shared wall…

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  • petrescatraian@libranet.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To each their own. I do hear all sorts of sounds coming from my neighbors in my apartment. From moaning to phone alarm vibrating, sounds of various objects hitting each other, even arguing sometimes.

    Not to mention some people open their doors and windows when cooking, allegedly for the draft to get in and get the smell out of the kitchen (don't know why they do this, just open your damn window and that's it). And when the air goes the opposite way, the hallway of the building is a mix of various smells of whatever they cook.

    Oh, by the way, did I mention I need to take the elevator to reliably reach my apartment?

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• taanegl@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  “Listen, you’re gonna live as the markets dictate. The labour markets, the consumer markets… are you listening?”

  *me, lighting the Molotov coctail*

  Ah-huh. Continue.

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  • hglman@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You don’t have to be a wizard to cast fireball

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised to find a fair amount of computer wizards skulking around Lemmy

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• DharkStare@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The houses are so close together and have so little yard I don’t see why they didn’t just turn them into townhouses.

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• Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Why 2 bath? What idiot came up with this?

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  • Brcht@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They took the enshitment too literally

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  • snowsuit2654@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Two people who share bedroom can use bathrooms at the same time

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• hakunawazo@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That garage door is way to small and they forgot to build the appropriate house.

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  • grue@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It just highlights how absurdly much space cars take up compared to people. Residents could have 25% more room to live if they didn’t have to dedicate the space to car parking. (That parking is likely required by law as a minimum parking requirement in the zoning code, by the way, so it’s entirely possible the person who ends up living there might not even actually want it.)

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• UmeU@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  We need some 1500sqft 2br/2ba homes near major metro areas for under 400k. In today’s economy that would be achievable for most people.

  The only options near major cities are 2500+sqft homes or 650sqft condos going for $700k+.

  I don’t think I have ever seen a 2br/2ba detached home… it’s either shoebox condos or 4+ bedrooms going for the same ridiculous 700k+ price tag.

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• protist@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Pro: Can walk to Whataburger and Gold’s Gym

  Con: Literally directly underneath high voltage wires

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• itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No gutters

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