I would like all my land to be entirely house, please. It's not freedom unless I'm squashed in enough that I can reach out my window and touch my neighbour's balls.
Edit: Jesus Christ guys, I didn't know we were so pro-McMansion. Look at how much space these houses are wasting that could go into native green space (not lawns, but the actual nature shit we need to not go insane) or community areas. I'm not against high-density living, I'm against waste, and environmental homogeny
Mfers will build houses like this and then put windows on the side walls
uh isn't that anti-high density housing
the problem with suburbia is NOT that the living spaces are too squashed together lol
The houses here are too big and take up their whole lot which is also a problem when it's cheap shitty single family monstrosities like these are. You could fit way more housing and green space into this photo if it wasn't a cursed suburban horrors
The houses here are too big
Eh, I live in something like one of these and honestly it’s a good size for a group of 4-5 people, whether that be roommates or a family. The real stupid thing with the design is that they’re separated instead of being a row home. I mean you get SOME improved ventilation and lighting with those gaps between the houses but not really enough to justify the space lost.
It looks like shit to me :shrug-outta-hecks:
I don't have a problem with high-density housing if it's free and practical. But these are probably million dollar+ houses.
yea, I'm just saying the comment about being "squashed in" could be applied to apartments even moreso.
the problem with suburbia is that you're destroying land at the expense of having a private fiefdom, and in this case it's so cramped that you're not even achieving the latter objective anymore, but are still suffering from the first
Yea I was about to say this looks like an old suburb in Pittsburgh or like a Detroit from when you had to walk to work so they put down row houses to pack people in closer to the job site. The total opposite of the suburban development you’d associate with white families post-white flight where density was shunned for car culture. Source: my great grandmother was a factory worker in northern NJ and lived in a house just like this with her entire family. Still remember the particular stink of that house, just pure old person smell
Fuck using land to house people I will use land as a strange vanity project about who can keep non-native plants alive the longest in climates they should never survive in.
If the land is planned well you can house several people comfortably in a small area and have an environmentally friendly community garden so people can grow and share shit.
I would like all my land to be entirely house, please
Yes. Fuck mowing a lawn. And then if you don’t mow it you get fined by the city. No thanks
Who said I wanted a lawn? I want to make a community garden to chill with my homies.
But also yes, fuck lawns.
These sure don't look like McMansions. Where are the garages? This can't be in America. There's nowhere to park! Three stories? And three chimneys? Porches? This doesn't add up.
Every house should have its own fenced-in back yard for young fascists to practice marksmanship.
And what's wrong with high-density housing, anyway? Each house on a half-acre lot...now that's a waste of land. Each one needs to be mowed and chemically washed and mulched and sodded with new grass every year, a tremendous pollution and ill-used resources.
I did? "Look at how much space these houses are wasting" They're not wasting space. They are crammed together cheek by jowl. A waste of space is a half acre lot. Plus the houses are three stories, they can't get much higher without installing an elevator. The front yards are postage stamps and the back yards look to be some kind of shared space.
Honestly I'm all for increased urban density, we should strive for Kowloon Walled City levels of urban density, we all know that urban living is healthier for the mind and body and we should forcefully relocate everyone to live in such conditions.
I'm being meta-ironic, that means I don't know whether I'm being serious or not.
Very nearly this, but unironically.
1/5 the density of KWC, with actual solar envelopes to speak of, would be a vibe.
In an actual communist world people would live communally, that means no private bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchens, etc. Humans should be socialized to the point where nudity and sex are not something to be repulsed by, we should have people waking up in one bed and falling asleep in another since housing should not just be equal but interchangeable as well. You should be sleeping in close proximity to other people, possibly on the same bed, you should be eating in communal cafeterias, you should be taking a shit and cleaning yourself with the least amount of water possible in a communal setting that once existed in many ancient societies. The capitalist fears the pod and the bugs and the owning nothing because to them that would be oppression, to oppressors equality is oppression.
Nothing about this is objectionable. :yes-chad:
Don't forget, though, that the bugs are for eating.
I find veganism to be incompatible with eating bugs but both are good
No, I will never tolerate terraced houses in America. That would be socialism.
But then I won't get my morning neighbourly ball touch
I will admit it gets tough in the winter
Bro what if we stack all of those houses together into, like, a really big house that can fit lots of people in the fewest space.
That would be pretty poggers I think.
Yo yeah and then we could use all that space leftover around the really big house to make a community garden where people can hang out and grow plants and chill. Like some kind of community or something.
Honestly all I know about these us that they're overpriced, but I'm not sure that these would all necessarily be single-family, esp because they look like older construction and they've got no driveways ( is this a parking lot situation?)
Edit - now that I think about it, the double chimneys might be for separate hot water/steam heat boilers.
Is grass a worse use of space than bloated, badly-constructed McMansion?
yeah especially if its non-native. now if you grow wild grass that attracts butterflies or native bees or something thats kinda hype
I mean if it's just grass that's chilling it can still shelter some insects, photosynthesize a little even if it's not native, and doesn't have giant vaulted ceilings that require an AC or heater running 24/7
I would not call these McMansions, also the pic isn’t close up enough for me to say if they’re really “badly constructed” or not. I live in a house like one of these made of brick and it’s actually very well built.
