I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 7 other friends.
It would get old fast
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ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LadyButterfly@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
Haha brilliant 👏
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
None of Friends 1-7 are you
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.
- House needs to be in the mountains
- Fuck lawns
- I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
- If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
- This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE
WoodScientist@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks ago
Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.
A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks 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.
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 weeks 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.
NONE_dc@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
YES I loved that show
kadup@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon
Xerxos@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
BoomBoomBoomBoom@lemmings.world 3 weeks ago
The only problem I see here is the lack of fences, trees, and plants.
dyc3@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
abir_v@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
This looks like hell
Why would you want a house like that. They are all the name characterless houses
bstix@feddit.dk 3 weeks 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.
Duranie@leminal.space 3 weeks 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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Yeah, I think most people could guess that
Doesn’t change anything though
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I didn’t give any fucks about what the neighborhood looks like, other than safe.
I do care about property value though.
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
I do care about property value though.
why?
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks 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
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 weeks 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
Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 weeks 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.
HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Well that’s a shitty looking commune.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
McCommune
Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Suburbian hell aside, noone prohibits you from befriending your neighbors.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I have to move every year because the rent on my basement only goes up.
auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.
cdf12345@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Calm down Netanyahu
Agent641@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Friend 4 has the best line-of-sight for machine gun nest and sniper fire.
PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Make it yourself.
MBech@feddit.dk 3 weeks 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.
megopie@beehaw.org 3 weeks 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.
pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.
I’ve visited friends in such areas. It is hell.
They say “it’s so nice that nothing is more than 20 minutes away”, while ignoring the fact that nothing is less than 20 minutes away.
They can’t even have a corner grocer (due to shitty zoning laws) and they don’t realize how much of their daily life their car eats.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Where does friend 3 park?
explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn’t get old.
Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Because it’s 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?
n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who is out here with that many friends??
Opisek@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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…
DmMacniel@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Grove Street, home.
KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
I’m fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.
qarbone@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
I literally cannot comprehend secured housing. Its like a dragon or unicorn. Sounds rad AF, but 10,000% unrealistic.
KiloGex@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Who has seven friends?!?
Sivecano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
This looks like some sort of desolate wasteland cosplaying as living space
CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No it doesn’t. We all pooped together and bought a second group home to use as a shop closer to our home track.
It’s an absolute blast.
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I’ve seen this show! Ted Danson punts a little dog into the sun!
RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
swelter_spark@reddthat.com 3 weeks 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.
SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Friend 3 over there without even a driveway, we know who the charity case is lol
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks 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.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
It is actually a anticommunist thing
Eq0@literature.cafe 3 weeks ago
Care to elaborate?
OrganicMustard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Also a chem industry lobbying to sell fertilizers, herbicides, insecticides and paint
gigachad@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Don’t they also have these “neighborhood associations” that forbid them to do anything that falls out of line?
Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
HOAs are indeed common in the “land of the free”.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
tamal3@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
dingus@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
MoonMelon@lemmy.ml 3 weeks 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.
RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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!
flughoernchen@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Imagine not being able to decide what you grow in your own yard. Wild.
Almonds@mander.xyz 3 weeks 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
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Pest control might be part of it.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Pests, like birds, butterflies, bees…
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
In a neighborhood like that, you’d probably end up with a fine and they’d charge you to ‘fix’ it for you.
Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
My British friend says that Americans don’t have lawns. They have grassed in areas.