✅ Lawn
✅ Driveway that fits two cars
✅ Two baths
✅ Not sharing walls with neighbor
That driveway does not fit two cars
One of them in the pic has two cars. Of course, the ass is sticking into the road a bit but ehhhh it counts.
In a lot of places you can get a ticket for blocking the sidewalk.
√ same price as a real house for an adult
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
kilometersmiles?Variety is against the HOA, you don’t want to go against the HOA.
HOAs should be a thing of the past.
nah, HOAs should have legally regulated limits on what they can and cannot do, sweden has HOAs too but basically all they do is pool together money to pay for infrastructure in the neighbourhood.
like, i for one quite like having paved roads and functional pipes, but i guess you do you.
like, i for one quite like having paved roads and functional pipes, but i guess you do you.
Do non HOA homes not have paved roads and working pipes?
There are no such areas, i’m not sure how you envision common infrastructure being maintained without an organization owning it?
Or do you just envision the municipality being in charge of maintaining your street’s piping? Have fun waiting half a year for them to get to it when it breaks.
Or do you just envision the municipality being in charge of maintaining your street’s piping?
That’s how my neighborhood works.
Have fun waiting half a year for them to get to it when it breaks.
They’re usually there within an hour if that happens.
I agree, and these houses look way too small and overpriced for a comfortable family setting, but stating 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
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.
That’s a better approach I think. It’s economically viable to make similar houses, but aesthetically and psychologically pleasing for houses to be different and unique, even if it’s just a variation per house on a street and not every street itself
Generally it is each subdivision, but it can be larger groups of homes like that.
They are depressing, but people buy them because they’re generally new construction and represent good value. You get over it if it saves you enough $$$.
I’ve yet to go into any new construction that wasn’t shit compared to the 100 year old house I grew up in. That place was rock solid. The only problem with it was a roof leak that was actually from the extension my parents had done on the 2nd floor (aka new construction). By comparison every time I go visit their new house they’ve uncovered some new shoddy workmanship from the shit builders that inly focus on cranking out houses as fast and cheap as possible. I hate so much that they sold their old place for this garbage I’m going to have to fix when I inherit it.
I agree, old homes have hella survivorship bias. But, you are playing roulette that nothing with fail immediately. The advantage of new construction is that you don’t have to worrru about any stupid retrofits and that you know nothing will break for at least a little bit.
Or worry about all of the asbestos, lead, and formaldehyde -laced building materials that were all of the rage in previous decades.
I think Formaldehyde is a bigger problem in new construction than old. Asbestos and lead are harder to deal with though. Formaldehyde just needs ventilation and a few years of offgassing.
It’s like a suburban tract home developer with a case of brain worms tried to build townhomes based solely on a verbal description he got from space alien visiting Brooklyn for the first time, relayed over a cell phone with one bar of reception.
60m2 for people who don’t know yee haw units
I love that Americans would still rather have crappy rectangles of lawn that they never use for anything than build up to the edge of the plot and have more rooms. Those plots are probably slightly bigger than that of my three bedroom terrace house.
Why would you want 2 baths for a single bedroom house…
Have you lived with another human that needs to shit at same time as you? It definitely happens.
Just get 1 bathroom with 2 toilets
Side by side or facing each other?
Depends. Do you prefer cooperative multiplayer or competitive multiplayer?
Just sit on the other’s lap and drop that double decker deuce, my friend. Also saves water with a single flush.
Hell yeah. Or if u have to piss while your wife is shitting just have her spread her legs and go in between. Gotta be on point with ur aim tho.
This can be solved by the technology of just waiting a few minutes until they are done.
If you have the space for two bathrooms then sure, go ahead, but the argument here is that there isn’t really space for it.
Piss off. You’ve obviously never lived with someone and experienced the moments it was critical to use the toilet.
Ever lived with someone while both of you were ill and had diarrhea?
Your reply is ignorant.
What a poor use of land and space for housing. Why not increase density with at a minimum a duplex or triplex? This is ridiculous.
A lot of people don’t want to share walls.
“Hey uh, I have 3 loud kids and a wife who is loud during sex. Wanna be my neighbor?”
What’s the dumb obsession with 2 bathrooms?
I’ve lived in several 1-toilet apartments in my life and am now a firm believer that all 1-toilet tenants have a god-given right to access to a backup toilet (such as in a laundry room or rec room on the apartment complex’s campus)
a toilet is a VERY unfun thing to not have a backup of and suddenly it’s not working
The houses are so close together and have so little yard I don’t see why they didn’t just turn them into townhouses.
Probably local planning restrictions, they’re quite fucked up in the states.
Plus, people are obviously superstitious about shared walls.
Why would you need two bathrooms if you’ve only got one bedroom??
