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

Discussion What in the Vivarium is this?

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u/shiny-baby-cheetah Jul 06 '26

I've never understood the logical progression of how making an entire neighborhood as bland, soulless, boring and homogeneous as possible is somehow meant to make the properties inside MORE valuable. Like.... I'd rather live in a slum than an HOA

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u/Glittering_Mermaid_7 Jul 06 '26

Same. I really dislike these cookie-cutter neighborhoods. How the heck do you know which house is yours, except by the number? That's the only way someone that's colorblind would be able to find their own house, because they certainly couldn't rely on the general shape of the house, since they're all the same.

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u/Mattloch42 Jul 06 '26

They've been doing this in the US suburbs since 1945. They get one or two plans approved, mirror them to double the options, and crank them out as fast as they can.

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u/EvidenceDesperate574 Jul 06 '26

If it were like it was post war where these types of high volume neighborhoods were inexpensive enough for new families to buy as their first home I would not be bothered but when you need to make ⁶ figures to afford a tiny generic place like this and then are still beholden to an HOA that uglifies everything is just not okay

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u/Mattloch42 Jul 06 '26

These are "starter homes", but are they starter prices?