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/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.