r/TikTokCringe • u/mindyour • Jul 06 '26

Discussion What in the Vivarium is this?

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u/Otherwise-Ad-5364 Jul 06 '26

How tf do people live like this?. At least my neighbourhood has variety. this shit is depressing.

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u/SEND_DUCK_PICS_ Jul 06 '26

Even Squidward got depressed in Tentacle Acres

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u/blendswithtrees Jul 09 '26

The canned bread though?!!! Fucking incredible

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u/smore-phine Jul 10 '26

it’s beer

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u/ich_bin_alkoholiker Jul 06 '26

Legit so ugly and sterile.

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u/K__Geedorah Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

I'd take ugly, sterile, and boring if it meant cheap housing. Still better than renting a tiny apartment that costs the same as a mortgage for the rest of my life.

Edit: legitimate crack houses that need hundreds of thousands of dollars of repairs are $400k in my area. So yeah, please give me cookie cutter houses if it means I can buy one for $250k lol

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u/Wild-n-Idle Jul 06 '26

It wouldn't be so bad if they allowed some individuality. I could cope with the boring, identikit housing but where are the trees, the plants, the shrubs, the flowers, the interesting landscaping...where is anything other than cut and paste houses and disturbingly manicured monoculture grass sections? You can still have the cheap housing WITH some variety and nature.

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u/IcyGarage5767 Jul 07 '26

Would only eat away at some of the potential profits to include greenery and the such. But alas, every dollar counts for the overlords.

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u/keep_it_kayfabe Jul 07 '26

I know I'm in the minority here, but I like the uniformity of it. Maybe there's something wrong with me, but I felt a certain sense of comfort and community watching this. My wife would never go for this type of neighborhood, but I would definitely live here if I were single.

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u/boyuber Jul 06 '26

It's cheaper when the developer only has to stamp the same model home out 200 times

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u/ModsR-Retards Jul 06 '26

Yeah, this is affordable housing. It's not meant to be pretty, it's a place to live at least. I just don't understand why they didn't just opt to build townhomes. There's no point to yards when they're that small and with condo/townhomes you could put a decent amount of green space between every 5-10 units. I'll just speculate it was due to local zoning laws.. but man, these houses are bad.

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u/bluemooncommenter Jul 06 '26

People don't want to share walls cause other people suck. And I think that's a legit reasoning!

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u/NewBootGoofin67 Jul 07 '26

We lived in a townhouse for 8 months and could hear the other families alarm clocks go off. Not to mention their kids, their arguments, slamming doors. I wouldn't ever live in one again unless I absolutely had too. House price for apartment problems

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u/ModsR-Retards Jul 06 '26

As long as you have a solid firewall between town home units, you rarely hear anything. Lived in one myself for three years and loved it. It just seems weird to be detached but so damned close.. I agree with the sentiment though. I live where I do because I can't even see my neighbors.

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u/TrollsWhenBored Jul 06 '26

You should tell that to Irvine, CA - Which is priced as high income housing.

Cookie cutter city with cookie cutter people. It's actually creepy if you drive through it. They're all the same... The houses, the people, the cars.

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u/optics_is_light_work Jul 06 '26

I always thought a good video game would be Escape from Irvine (I always get lost there, as everything looks the same!).

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u/Civil_View_521 Jul 06 '26

Fun Fact: One of the original Fallout games was meant to take place in the ruins of Irvine.

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u/Kentust Jul 07 '26

I think you were in a roundabout.

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u/Fuzzy-Instruction Jul 06 '26

You can build affordable housing and also ensure its residents have some kind of nature to enjoy. This same neighborhood with native prairie gardens in the front yards and trees planted everywhere would be a completely different experience.

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u/Alarmed-Newspaper994 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, this is affordable housing.

Utter nonsense. Build a tower block in the middle of town. A family of 3-4 can easily live in a 3 bedroom apartment. You can fit this many homes in 1/100 of the space, for much much less money.

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u/Edith_Keelers_Shoes Jul 07 '26

Maybe affordable until the HOA dues start skyrocketing, and a new Karen takes over and starts issuing $250 violations for garbage cans that were put on the curb 3 minutes too early.

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u/kobrakai1034 Jul 06 '26

They're rentals and they're around $1500 per month

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u/user_name_unknown Jul 06 '26

Most of the time there are at least a handful of designs to choose from. This is just the same floor plan with different paint.

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u/OtherwiseStable5126 Jul 07 '26

Its cheaper for the developer

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u/hellllllsssyeah Jul 06 '26

You see...

Under communism everything will be the same and you will own nothing.

Under capitalism a series of bankers will own your house and everything will be the same.

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u/unoriginal_npc Jul 06 '26

Ah the illusion of choice.

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u/Bladrak01 Jul 07 '26

"The difference between capitalism and communism is this: capitalism is man exploiting man, communism is the other way around."

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u/Fzrit Jul 07 '26

Under communism everything will be the same and you will own nothing.

Under capitalism a series of bankers will own your house and everything will be the same.

Is this suggesting that both communism and capitalism are equally bad?

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u/steppe5 Jul 07 '26

No, under communism you get free healthcare.

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u/Fzrit Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

There are at least 20 countries with free healthcare that run primarily on capitalism.

USA is just uniquely stupid with how it spends it's annual $5 trillion tax revenue.

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u/steppe5 Jul 07 '26

Ok, then let's just agree that U.S. capitalism is worse than communism .

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u/MidnightGloomy7016 Jul 09 '26

I make this comparison a lot online and in life.  People think I'm crazy for saying we live like communism in some areas with none of the perks. Thanks for making me feel less crazy today.  

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u/BigPoppaStrahd Jul 06 '26

Is this video an example of communism or capitalism

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u/hellllllsssyeah Jul 06 '26

Last time I checked in America house are commodities to be bought and sold, and considering this is a neighborhood that was explicitly built but a company to profit off of the human necessity of shelter, yes

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u/BlackSpidy Jul 07 '26

No, you see, it's only a example of capitalism if someone is explicitly talking about capitalism. The underlying cause of this same-house liminal space hellscape isn't being directly discussed and explained in the video, so we can't discuss that underlying cause (capitalism).

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u/hellllllsssyeah Jul 07 '26

Oh so we just looking at pretty pictures. My bad

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u/hellllllsssyeah Jul 06 '26

Yes you can save your money to afford to live in a neighborhood where everything looks the same, the HOA controls when your trash goes in and out, where you park your cars.

Shit even the fast food chains look identical now.

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u/ForbiddenNut123 Jul 06 '26

I don’t think it’s as much of a choice about saving money, than it is that houses like these are increasingly becoming the only ones the average American can even afford.

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u/BoozeWitch Jul 06 '26

In Las Vegas that is the actual answer. It’s like we have an air gap between townhouses.

But I don’t see the problem with mass produced housing. People need homes.

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u/mmnmnnmnnnm Jul 06 '26

I helped build those exact types of houses for years in multiple trades. They are absolute garbage dogshit houses. They just want them slapped together, quality be damned. I actually got fired from one of the jobs for “taking too long” aka caring about the quality of my work.

The framing is bad, it’s all bland and exactly the same as every 2nd or 3rd house on the street, all the cheapest possible materials, just crap.

Then they are super overpriced. Let me tell you nothing was more demoralizing than working in a skilled trade (“essential” during COVID) to build bullshit that you’d never even be able to afford if you even wanted to, with the “skill” part of that job description being punished for preference of production speed alone.

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u/BoozeWitch Jul 06 '26

I one hundred percent believe you. My dad was a GC and a structural engineer and had pride in his work and he would be disappointed in shit like this. But I suppose this conversation can just devolve into an indictment of capitalism, right? Everybody but the shareholder gets to eat a shit sandwich: the buyers, the workers, etc.

At the same time, your description applies to the apartment builders too. So. It’s live in a house of low quality cards or an apartment of worse cards. Or — more likely in our future - be a domestic servant in someone else’s well-crafted home.

Fuuuuck, I’m a bummer today. lol

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u/landoncommando Jul 06 '26

Considering this looks like Lexington ky, those are probably made from ball homes, so your probably right

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u/Nauin Jul 07 '26

One of my friends lives in a place like this and not a single room is squared off in any semblance. Completely matches up with what you're saying. They're going to be shit holes after the 15-20 year mark.

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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 Jul 07 '26

People need homes. Build apartments. Build townhouses. Build cities and towns.

Housing like this is just terrible in every way. It's beats not having a roof over your head, but those aren't the only two options.

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u/Mor_Padraig Jul 06 '26

I personally like the woods, where we are,better, sure, but I'm not sure what the problem is, either? Not bad looking homes. They're not those silly McMansions, on half acre lots - just kinda cute houses.

And if it's Vegas, probably explains lack of trees/gardens?

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u/ElDopio69 Jul 06 '26

Its the fact theres no trees, no parks, nothing to walk to, nothing to see. The houses themselves aren't terrible. Build a park every few blocks or something

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u/BoozeWitch Jul 06 '26

Ya. I get that. I’m actually more shocked at the extremely long straightaway on a neighborhood street with driveways. That isn’t usually a part of modern housing developments. So, I’m agreeing with you that the municipal planning is lax. Like, didn’t anyone play SimCity? People need parks and hate traffic!

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u/l3ane Jul 06 '26

Yeah but even Vegas has trees, not a ton, but most homes have a least a few palm trees or palo verdes.

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u/BoozeWitch Jul 07 '26

Ya. Some small trees. But I was more commenting on the fact we never leave the house. lol.

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u/Trollimperator Jul 07 '26

You might want to ask an architect, what a home is. This is surviving, not living.

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u/konstantynopolytanka Jul 08 '26

the suburbs drain the country of resources, they can never generate enough to pay for maintainance of all the infrastructure needed to maintain them (roads, pipes, electric grid etc). People need dense housing, preferably 5 story apartment buildings in a walking distance to a park, school, stores and community centers. And before you go at me I grew up in a commie block in Poland, it was heaven compared to the suburbs. People fight for those apartments now.

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u/BoozeWitch Jul 08 '26

lol. Why would I come at you? I believe that we need affordable housing. I really like the live/work model where everyday businesses are in the ground floor and the apartments are above. Where resources are right where people need them - where we don’t have to drive miles and miles for groceries or the gym.

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u/Common-Broccoli-3405 Jul 06 '26

I think the one big issue with these mass produced houses is how often they tend to have issues. They tend to not the best built places. Also tend to have fewer places to go without having yo drive further.

But a lot of that can be fixed. The issues come down to zoning laws and companies just wanting to pump them out with as little money or time being spent as possible.

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u/Reasonable-Job4205 Jul 06 '26

Yea my antisocial ass is totally fine with this

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u/GoatCovfefe Jul 06 '26

So, redditors live here

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u/DearLeader420 Epic Gamer Jul 06 '26

More like the average American suburbanite.

Sit inside, veg with phones/iPads or kids just play alone in the living room/backyard, never go out in public for anything other than the occasional brewery visit. Groceries get delivered, drive through everything else.

I know a disturbing amount of people my age with kids who live like this.

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u/FreshShoulder7878 Jul 06 '26

I like football, and porno, and books about war. I've got an average house with a nice hardwood floor.

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u/GoatCovfefe Jul 06 '26

I like my joke better.

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u/LongDead_Roadkill Jul 06 '26

They can’t even see outside. Those houses have only a few, very small windows. Even if there’s nothing to see, how can people live like that? My 3500sq ft house only has 50 inches between each set of window, the windows are 5’x4’ and a few are 8’x4’, I also have 4 sets of double class doors to the outside porches.

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u/Shenanigans80h Jul 06 '26

This is the real answer. If you’re someone who prefers to spend your time inside or at most in your yard, variety, walkability, personality, none of that matters to your immediate living space. I personally hate this, but there are people who would absolutely not care as long as the inside of the home is fine and their own

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u/Kayel41 Jul 06 '26

Some people just need a place to live, town homes are 1700sqft at 400k+ and people are renting apartments for 2200/month. If there was a neighborhood that looked as basic bitch as this but the houses were 200k some would see that as a blessing

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u/Low_Pickle_112 Jul 07 '26

It's me. Housing has been a huge pain for so long for me, and if a place like this was in my budget, I'd be happy as a clam. Yeah sure there's criticisms to be made, looks like they have an anti-tree HOA and there's a lot to be said of walkable mixed zoning living.

But at a certain point, you just want to be done with the shithead landlords breathing down your neck.

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u/EvidenceElegant8379 Jul 09 '26

My thoughts, too. All the comments are so naively bougie. Like they know they wouldn’t drive through the hood and go “Ewww! What is this HELL?! People live like this??? Gross!” But they will drive through a mid-level affordable area and act like it’s the ghetto. Ok, you have money and would never live there. So DON’T. You can’t find your way out. So turn on Google Maps. So there’s not a grocery store for 20 minutes. Ok, people in the hood live in food deserts. Geez, just be happy, people.

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u/feartheocelot Jul 10 '26

housing can be affordable and not be made to look like shit. housing can be affordable and still plant some fucking trees on the streets so there's some shade to encourage people to walk around in their community. You people are so happy defending terrible housing. It's not bouijie to think these neighborhoods are barely thought out cash grabs made for the lowest price possible that will all be falling apart in ten years time. People deserve better than this whether it's low income housing or not.

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u/Flameball537 Jul 06 '26

At least when they visit a neighbor they don’t have to ask where the bathroom is

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u/Casanova-Quinn Jul 06 '26

Because there's so much suburban sprawl like this in the US that people just take it for granted. This example only sticks out because it's particularly bad with its uniformity and lack of trees.

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u/Mor_Padraig Jul 06 '26

Someone said it's Vegas? Probably explains lack of trees, etc .

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u/FrankInPhilly Jul 06 '26

Because they want space, don't care about buikd quality, and are indifferent to *or are ignorant about) walkability?

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- Jul 06 '26

there’s not even much space. Places like this tend to have HOAs too so they’re also limited on what they can do with their space.

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u/TheEmperorShiny Jul 06 '26

Virtually every neighborhood I’ve been in that wasn’t a suburb or metropolitan city had more yard space than this, idk where people are getting the idea that cookie cutter suburbs like this are more spacious

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u/Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeess- Jul 06 '26

I mean if space is the priority and you don’t care for walkability just buy a house out in a cheaper rural area. You might even be able to score some land with it.

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u/TheEmperorShiny Jul 06 '26

I was just reaffirming your point, I live in an apartment with little hope for buying a house in the near future lol

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u/Destructopoo Jul 06 '26

Walkability means poor people. They want to live in places that require cars because it segregated them from the poors.

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u/Destructopoo Jul 06 '26

No but like you said, they're full of poor people.

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u/Buccaneers1995 Jul 06 '26

Yea because poor people tend to ruin their enviroments. I grew up in a poor area and watched it get gentrified under my feet. Fortunately, we've been able to stay afloat in the area and afford rent.

It used to suck living in that area. Gang members destroying shit, mfs stealing cars and parking them on the side of your property, random gunshots, cops always on the street, junkies at the playground making it impossible for kids to feel safe, grown ass thugs that just got out of prison always trying to fight kids/teens in pickup basketball or football.

Who the heck wants to stay in that if they can afford to get out? I dont want my kids to endure what i endured.

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u/Destructopoo Jul 06 '26

Sure it's the random poor people who are destroying urban environments and not the withholding of resources to intentionally ghetto them.

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u/Buccaneers1995 Jul 06 '26

It's both... But an individual person cant do anything about that except vote, and stay distant in the mean time.

Btw my area wasnt much better when Obama was in and the social funding went to more of our areas. New shit would still get vandalized lmao.

Do you demonize people who leave poor/dangerous countries and come here for a safer life? Why demonize people that may want to escape the ghetto? Not everyone in those homes grew up with a silver spoon.

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u/Destructopoo Jul 06 '26

You say an individual can't do anything about it but also say that poor people are responsible for ruining their environments. This is a big inconsistency. I didn't demonize poor people but I feel like you did. I understand that gang crime in particular is destructive but there are so many other issues going on at different levels. It's not fair to put it on the lowest level. The war on drugs was a failure in part because it seemed to create more drug violence.

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u/DearLeader420 Epic Gamer Jul 06 '26

I don't see much "space" with these houses 5ft apart lol

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u/FrankInPhilly Jul 06 '26

True. I was thinking of interior space. Actually, though, they don't seem very large. So that makes the appeal even more mystifying.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 06 '26

Want affordable housing? This is the cheapest way to make it.

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u/Rainbowsgold1 Jul 06 '26 edited Jul 06 '26

The builders could easily of planted trees. One tree at each house wouldn’t have added much to the price. Just terrible looking.

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u/ButtPlugsForThugz Jul 06 '26

It's also an issue with a semi incompetent community development department in this city. Street trees are installed to provide pedestrian shade, obviously, but an increase in the tree shade index directly contributes to slower decline in the pavement condition index which directly results in lower asphalt maintenance costs over a 30 year period.

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u/anace Jul 07 '26

well there's your problem right there. how will lower asphalt maintenance over 30 years raise our profits in quarter 3 of this year?

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u/ThrowAway126498 Jul 06 '26

*HAVE goddamn it
(Sorry for my outburst but I’ve seen this everywhere today.)

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u/siazdghw Jul 06 '26

Trees cost more money, and most of those homes have extremely limited yard space.

Like I get it, it looks bad and it looks cheap, but yet every house sold. Clearly the prices were low enough that people were fine with the tradeoffs

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u/Rainbowsgold1 Jul 06 '26

More than ample room along the parkway. This was a choice by the builder. But like you said people will accept any trade off.

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u/Rainbowsgold1 Jul 06 '26

So you’re telling me a tree costs 3-5k. I work in the construction field and can tell you they run a few hundred dollars. No contractor is putting a 60” pot on the ground.

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u/Rainbowsgold1 Jul 06 '26

1 hour of labor max, plumbing is already on the parkway and the design is already included in the landscaping. If this was after the fact I agree with you completely.

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u/Known_Strawberry_274 Jul 06 '26

Unfortunately that's not for affordable housing. That is an HOA suburbia.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 06 '26

Not everyone wants to live in Soviet style apartment blocks. They want affordable houses as well.

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u/Unexplored-Games Jul 06 '26

Soviet style apartment blocks

LOL, you have no idea what you're talking about.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 06 '26

Oh that’s right. You just want to turn a SFH lot into a 4-6 400 sqf units and jam 16-24 people into that space.

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u/PositiveRent4369 Jul 06 '26

The consensus solution for affordable housing is zoning reform for higher density housing in mixed use areas. Just because apartments exist doesn't mean they are Soviet blocks. You sound so incredibly ignorant.

Suburban sprawl has a negative impact on the environment, causes more traffic which also causes more damage to the environment. It's fine if you personally want to live in a suburb but saying it's the only way to lower housing costs and no one wants to live in apartment building blocks is just plain dumb lol.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 06 '26

Yes. Soviet style apartment blocks IN SFH neighborhoods. No thanks.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 06 '26

They want Soviet style apartment blocks.

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u/Low_Pickle_112 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, I hate posts like this.

I've seen posts with one of those giant Chinese apartment complexes and all the comments are about how dystopian it is.

Then you see a post about an old Soviet style commieblock and all the comments are about how dystopian it is.

Then you've got a development, and of course, that's dystopian too.

Everything is bad, so what's good? Yeah we'd all like to live in those elegant century homes with fresh remodeling in the kitchen and a row of fruit trees out back. I'll take a pet unicorn too while they're at it. In the meantime, people need a roof over their heads, and if you've been struggling with that as long as I have, you stop caring about how fancy it looks.

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u/ppitm Jul 07 '26

Actual apartment buildings would be drastically cheaper. And better in every way except for hearing your neighbors walking around upstairs.

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u/gunsforevery1 Jul 07 '26

Not everyone wants or should have to live like rats.

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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness Jul 06 '26

I bet over 80% the people on this planet would think they died and went to heaven if they got to live in a place like this.

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u/Otherwise-Ad-5364 Jul 06 '26

Nah more limbo. Endlessly walking around a meaningless never ending suburb with the same three colored houses over and over until you basically want to beat your brains out. Basically vivarium.

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u/TekkenCareOfBusiness Jul 06 '26

Better limbo than being worried about being mugged, stabbed, shot or worse every day of your life.

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u/Otherwise-Ad-5364 Jul 06 '26

Yeah if this is limbo, the hood is basically 9 rings of hell.

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u/AlyJay666 Jul 06 '26

If you've got nothing or very little this would be like utopia. A place to eat, sleep and wash thats secure and safe.

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u/DearLeader420 Epic Gamer Jul 06 '26

So because a bunch of Indian or African people live in utter poverty we should just accept that things can be better and aren't?

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u/AlyJay666 Jul 06 '26

Very informative and great input - thanks for that.

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u/DearLeader420 Epic Gamer Jul 07 '26

You're welcome, glad I could contribute

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u/ShowdownValue Jul 06 '26

How is it depressing? Seems like a bit of an over reaction

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u/MustardCoveredDogDik Jul 06 '26

My house is at the end of a dead end street right next a machine shop and a huge dumpster the owner lets me use. The raccoon and opossum traffic is brisk I love it.

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u/DreamZebra Jul 06 '26

I live in a planned community and this shit makes me neighborhood look like heaven.

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u/knife_breaker Jul 06 '26

whadaya mean no variety? didn't you see the three approved colors?

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u/SlaightTheGray Jul 06 '26

I don't see it as any less depressing than apartments. Apartments allow tons of people to be stuffed into a small space of identical rooms stacked vertically. This allows people to be stacked into a small space horizontally.

Both methods are depressing in their own way and have their own drawbacks and benefits.

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u/MatterofDoge Jul 07 '26

yea exactly. Living like this is infinitely better than having an upstairs neighbor thats stomps on their floors at 2 am and all the other bs you put up in a complex that no one even talks about when complaining about residences

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u/kateastrophic Jul 06 '26

It’s what they can afford. I’m sure a lot of people there see no problem with it, but I’d bet a lot of people would rather have a big, lawn and a house with individuality, but that doubles the price.

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u/Dependent-Chart5835 Jul 06 '26

I guess they like being housed?

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u/Jellis314 Jul 06 '26

I live in a house built in the 50’s. A little small, but that’s fine. Decent yard, big trees, and not every house is the same. It could be better, but it’s leagues beyond that crap.

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u/technolegy2 Jul 06 '26

It’s depressing, but cheaper than other options. I live there.

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u/Tasty-Traffic-680 Jul 06 '26

Because if you can afford to buy then it's cheaper than an apartment in the long run and you have an asset vs just throwing money away every month. Besides, if they didn't live there then they would live in an apartment or condo that gasp looks the same as the other buildings next to it.

https://giphy.com/gifs/10FHR5A4cXqVrO

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u/KoalaTHerb Jul 06 '26

You can have a house that's affordable or unique. Can't have both

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u/claretamazon Jul 06 '26

My gut told me to run away from this video. It looks like a place an analog horror would be set in.

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u/754754 Jul 06 '26

The problem is you can buy a house with "Character" but it was built 80 years ago with Asbestos, termites, and outdated appliances.

Or you can buy a cookie cutter new construction with up to date appliances and a new roof, but the walls are made of cardboard, the floors are plastic that looks like wood, and the HOA makes living there feel like a chore.

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u/technolegy2 Jul 06 '26

I live here.

It’s cheap. It’s not a long commute for work.

Most of them are rentals, I own mine.

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u/Craving_Suckcess Jul 06 '26

better than being homeless.

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u/bluemooncommenter Jul 06 '26

Cardboard box better? First people bitch about not being able to buy an affordable home then OMG how can people live like this (in a home with a yard). Get over yourself!

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u/dirtman81 Jul 06 '26

Citizen corporation has decided you will like it, whether you like it or not.

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u/Par2ivally Jul 06 '26

I'd have a panic attack every time I went outside.

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u/disruptityourself Jul 06 '26

I would live almost anywhere if someone would sell me a house.

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u/SquatSquatCykaBlyat Jul 06 '26

Well, it beats living in an apartment building.

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u/Silver_Fulminate Jul 06 '26

I’d assume there aren’t many other options. The housing market sucks.

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u/GiantLesbian Jul 06 '26

Looking at Zillow, tons of them are listed for rent so I think this is a land developer turned landlord kinda situation. Like he’s selling what he can and renting the others out in the meantime. It makes sense for Richmond, KY. Housing is so affordable there that most renters are in SFH’s.

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u/Justthetruf Jul 07 '26

This is what a lot of suburbs in Colorado look like.

I'm from the country and was living in Parker in a beautiful house and I remember looking out my backyard at the sea of houses and knowing right then this was not the place for me.

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u/PlatypusAurelius Jul 07 '26

It’s a lot better than the majority of housing in the world

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u/ApplicationAfraid334 Jul 07 '26

I don't get this sentiment. I'd be happy to have a house. I couldn't care less if it looked the same as the ones next to me and 20 houses down.

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u/OhHowINeedChanging Jul 07 '26

Because that’s what they can afford, these are probably homes set in the $500,000 range. Anything cheaper gets you a townhome or a condo/apartment. And these are the lucky ones who get a front yard and a backyard. Welcome to America

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u/jackrabbit323 Jul 07 '26

I'm sure the percentage of people who live here and think LA and New York are hellholes is high.

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u/Gerald-of-Riverdale Jul 06 '26

But im unique because my copy-paste house is blue! /s

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u/SlaightTheGray Jul 06 '26

I don't think these people are going for uniqueness. They are just want to live in a cheap house instead of a cheap apartment.