It would get old fast

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• Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I’ll never understand why US suburbs like to utterly nuke any kind of nature around their houses and replace it with “lawns”. Like, I’d rip that stuff out and at least plant some potats and shit immediately.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It is actually a anticommunist thing

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    • Eq0@literature.cafe ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Care to elaborate?

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    • OrganicMustard@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Also a chem industry lobbying to sell fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides and paint

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  • gigachad@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Don’t they also have these “neighborhood associations” that forbid them to do anything that falls out of line?

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    • Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      HOAs are indeed common in the “land of the free”.

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    • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      even without HOA. non HOA streets often also maintain a perfect lawn

      I don’t get it.

      hate lawn maintenance, I find that if you let it run wild and full of local wild vegetation they are so much prettier and fun to look out, look at all those butterflies and bees.

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  • tamal3@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s just that much easier for developers to raze all plants to the ground before grading and running other heavy equipment. These are new construction and so those developers aren’t accountable to anyone, and I’m sure the local jurisdiction doesn’t care. That’s not a justification, for what it’s worth, just an explanation.

    What I’ve never been sure of is why people don’t eventually realize how much nicer everything would be if they just replanted trees (or left them in the first place) but they seem to be used to suburban hell. If you drive everywhere it’s less of an issue that your environment is shit.

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    • Sludgeyy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re assuming people who are forced to buy into the suburban hell have a choice.

      If a person had a choice between a 100k house in a suburban hell or a 100k house in secluded heaven. That they pick the suburban hell.

      Have you seen the housing market in the US?

      It’s also funny how “Suburban” meaning has changed. It’s supposed to be non-urban.

      But with these “suburban” neighborhoods in cities. It has basically became a word for a neighborhood with houses built next to each other and less about where it’s located.

      Suburbs use to be an inexpensive option as opposed to urban living.

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So what I suspect happens is that in newer development communities, the people building them just seem to find it easier to level/bulldoze an entire plot of land to build a neighborhood. Then they just don’t feel like putting plants and trees back in out of cost and laziness.

    For older neighborhoods in the US, you’ll find a lot more foliage. I love it when I go to an older neighborhood that has large trees that canopy the area. They do exist here…it’s just that they have to be a bit older. My condo complex has some wonderful tall trees and plants everywhere. It’s not a new complex though and they seem to care more about plantife than some others do. They even randomly planted a massive tree last year for some reason lol. Seemed to require some pretty big machinery to haul it and put it in lol.

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    • MoonMelon@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, it’s impossible to develop a greenfield site without scraping everything off. You have to create and get approval on water runoff management plan for any new development. That means grading everything and often these days it also means managing and impounding water on-site without dumping it all into the (overloaded) storm drain system. When there’s no grass you have to install silt fences to keep silt out of nearby streams while building. You can’t get final approval, and remove the silt fence, until there is some kind of ground cover and that basically means grass since it grows fast and is easy to apply. Even if you somehow left the trees there’s no way they’d survive the process.

      Fuck McMansion developers, and fuck lawns, don’t get me wrong. But it’s a reflection of an entire system of land-use policy and not just stupidity, or whatever.

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  • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m unsure if I’m allowed to have tomatoes growing but so far no one has said anything so places without hoa care a lot less!

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    • flughoernchen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Imagine not being able to decide what you grow in your own yard. Wild.

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  • Almonds@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    A lawn is generally easier to take care of than a collection of various plants and trees. First thing I do at any new home is plant a fuck ton of edible plants, and my neighbors always talk about not having the time or energy to do the same

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Pest control might be part of it.

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    • AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pests, like birds, butterflies, bees…

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  • BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    In a neighborhood like that, you’d probably end up with a fine and they’d charge you to ‘fix’ it for you.

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  • Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    My British friend says that Americans don’t have lawns. They have grassed in areas.

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• Xerxos@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “It would get old fast”? Op, I’m afraid you don’t have good friends. When I was a university student, I was in a shared apartment with two friends. It was great: you always had someone to do stuff with and group activities were much easier to schedule.

  Now that I’m older it would be nice to easily check who’s up for something, spontaneously grill with everyone or simply sit together in the evening and talk.

  My friends group still goes on vacation together from time to time and I love it. If your friends are only enjoyable in small doses… I don’t know… that sounds sad.

  Also with a house of your own, everyone would have enough space to retreat if necessary.

  Besides from the bad gardening that was mentioned by the other posts, I would love to live like this.

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  • BoomBoomBoomBoom@lemmings.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The only problem I see here is the lack of fences, trees, and plants.

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    • dyc3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      At the end of the day it’s not the details of the pic but the concept conveyed. All the homies, within walking distance, with someone probably available to hang whenever.

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  • abir_v@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Man, this. I moved in with a friend to my first apartment like 10 years ago. With two more a couple floors down.

    Nowadays all 4 of us live in a big house together and it’s great. Sure there’s some conflict, but at the end we’re still friends and we can reconcile like adults. I’d move more of our close friends in if we had the space. We even briefly had a 5th housemate when he was between apartments and that was cramped, but still actually very nice.

    Good friends is the key - to me, this sounds great. I have plenty of friends I’d love to have this close, it might even be hard to pick “just” 6.

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  • RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have a small friend group and we go on vacations together all the time. There are about 6 of us then I bring my kids too. We go to beaches, cabins, amusement parks, you name it. It’s awesome. I wish we all lived on the same st too. I bet we could even save some money by cooking meals together more often.

    I thought when I had kids I would be out of any kind of group like this but my friends are awesome. Occasionally they will do something and I’ll have to turn it down because it would be too hard but they always keep asking and we ask them too.

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• orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

  1. House needs to be in the mountains
  2. Fuck lawns
  3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
  4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
  5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE

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  • WoodScientist@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Your home can look like this. No HOA needed!

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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.

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  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Im with you. I’d love my 2 best friends and my sibling to live next to us, but im surrounded by woods and farmers and I very much like it that way. Yall can keep your suburban mcmansion cul-de-sac, life in the holler is much nicer.

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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.

      Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    There’s one guy I want to hang out with regularly. He can have the adjoining 150 acres and we’ll put a shack full of liquor with some comfy chairs on the border.

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    • orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.

      My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.

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• ChicoSuave@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 7 other friends.

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  • LadyButterfly@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Haha brilliant 👏

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  • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    None of Friends 1-7 are you

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• n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Everyone’s dream =

  a cabin in the woods overlaid with THIS in white letters at the top of the image and BUT WITH FAST INTERNET at the bottom

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  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m not seeing an A/C unit on this thing anywhere.

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If you have this, you’re already cool enough.

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• NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

  (Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)

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  • IndustryStandard@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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  • ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    YES I loved that show

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon

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• WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.

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  • cdf12345@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Calm down Netanyahu

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Friend 4 has the best line-of-sight for machine gun nest and sniper fire.

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• HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Well that’s a shitty looking commune.

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  • some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    McCommune

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• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  This looks like hell

  Why would you want a house like that. They are all the name characterless houses

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  • bstix@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    They have plenty of character.

    Friend 1 is a banjo player. You can tell by the large porch facing the entrance of the cul de sac from where he watches everyone who comes and goes.

    Friend 2 owns a large pick up truck. This is because his house has the best view of the agricultural fields to the left, so he identifies as a farmer, even if he works in a call center.

    Friend 3 doesn’t have a driveway. He actually thought that he would be able to ride with his friends every day.

    Friend 4 lives closest to the forrest so he wears outdoor clothing all the time and pretends to be the alpha male.

    Friend 5 is the beta cuck who actually fell for Friends 4’s self proclaimed alpha status.

    Friend 6 doesn’t exist. Nobody wants that to buy that house. The parked car belongs to the rela estate agent who pays regular visits to the house with potential buyers.

    Friend 7 is a conspiracy theorist who keeps mostly to himself and sometimes disappear for days. The upper floor is larger than the ground floor and is filled with horded things that he calls his prepping storage. There might even be other people up there.

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  • Duranie@leminal.space ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Look closer - it’s AI.

    That’s not too say I haven’t seen some awkward developments (prefab, 55 and over community) where they obviously leveled everything, built, then added back all young trees. Decades later it’s still obvious.

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    • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, I think most people could guess that

      Doesn’t change anything though

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  • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I didn’t give any fucks about what the neighborhood looks like, other than safe.

    I do care about property value though.

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    • DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I do care about property value though.

      why?

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• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?

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  • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Make it yourself.

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    • MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Vietnamese food just isn’t the same unless it comes from a far to small kitchen, with some ancient vietnamese couple yelling at each other. Can really taste that passion.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Suburbia may be a good place to shelter toddlers, but as soon as a child is more than about 6 years old, being trapped in a mcmansion on the edge of town seriously inhibits their growth and independence. They might be able to walk to a friend’s house, if they’re lucky enough to live somewhere with a sidewalk, but they’re unlikely to be able to walk to school, or anywhere else for that matter. …

  … And it’s more than just school, too. Kids have lots of sports and other activities, so [in better urbanist places] it’s very common to see children walking or cycling while dressed in football gear (not [American] football) or hockey gear (not [ice] hockey), because they travel to all these activities by themselves.

  In the US and Canada you have the stereotype of the suburban ‘soccer mum’, the mother who spends all of her time shuttling her kids around from school to activities to playdates and back. Because until a kid is about 16 years old and has their own driver’s licence, they need to be driven around everywhere by their parents. And this is considered ‘normal’.

  — Jason Slaughter, 2022

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    People blame the phones but what else.do.they.have to do? I know I didn’t spend all day online by choice as a teen

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      You’ve touched on the point Jason raises in literally the very next sentence after the quote I shared in the video that quote comes from.

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• Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Suburbian hell aside, noone prohibits you from befriending your neighbors.

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  • UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I have to move every year because the rent on my basement only goes up.

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• auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Me and the wife befriended the neighbours during lockdown. Hung out all the time, went on several holidays together.

  Still pals, was round at one of theirs for dinner the other day.

  Lived even closer than this for years. Didn’t get old. Miss it. But had to move on from the communal garden space for the kids.

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  • IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    same.

    exactly the same story.

    some neighbours (including me) left already and are still in the chat group.

    we even had some group drama and solidarity, and even did a Spartacus to the landlord.

    miss that so much

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• explodicle@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn’t get old.

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• megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

  Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

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• UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I literally cannot comprehend secured housing. Its like a dragon or unicorn. Sounds rad AF, but 10,000% unrealistic.

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• DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No one outside of high school has six friends.

  No one makes friends with six random neighbors. And certainly they don’t all consider each other friends.

  There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.

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• Opisek@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Slop.

  That aside, I choose friend 3. The only one without a driveway. Though if I did have a garage, I could establish my workshop there, hm…

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• Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Because it’s 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?

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• Quilotoa@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Where does friend 3 park?

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• KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.

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• KiloGex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who has seven friends?!?

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• BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Who is out here with that many friends??

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• qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve seen people rag on the suburbia of it all but no one has questioned the premise. If the suburban housing was the premise, then it shouldn’t matter who the neighbors are and the length of time would be irrelevant: you just wouldn’t want to live in the suburbs.

  The premise is implying something about the idea of living by friends is masking the inherent problems with the situation. And that mask would fall off after some time had passed. But, if you don’t like the suburbs as 90% of y’all felt compelled to make clear, why would that be suppressed and only resurface after time passes?

  Why would living by friends turn into a nightmare scenario? If you can’t stand being neighbors with them, then I’d argue you guys weren’t really friends. Or you have novel ideas about how much you have to interact with neighbors.

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• RagingRobot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d be so into this if there was something we could all walk to at the end of the block. Like a main st or something

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• elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I consider the ideal distance for friends and family to be 1hr walk/5-10 min drive.

  Except for my youngest sister. For her, an Emirates gold flyer program.

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• swelter_spark@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My aunt and her family lived in a place like this. It was such a weird vibe. We never walked or rode our bikes anywhere, we just played in the yard.

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• DmMacniel@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Grove Street, home.

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• SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Friend 3 over there without even a driveway, we know who the charity case is lol

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• TeoTwawki@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I suddenly remember all those 80s and 90s sitcoms where the friends live right nearby and wall right into each others homes without knocking and just start talking without any greetings. This picture is just as unrealistic.

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