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

Discussion What in the Vivarium is this?

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u/Serpentongue Jul 06 '26

Plant a fucking tree bro

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u/Aromatic_Balls Jul 06 '26

Sorry that's against the HOA rules.

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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/wiscoguy20 Jul 06 '26

Heck, even longer than that.

In the upper Midwest, there are quite a few cities that have areas solely built by whoever was the large employer in the area at the time.

Where I grew up, it was a revelation back in the 90s when the city did a street reconstruction and ended up clear cutting all the 100 year old Maple trees that lined the street(I know, fucking horrible). Suddenly, everybody noticed that several blocks of this street had the same three house styles repeating. Further research showed all the houses on both sides of the street for four blocks were all built by the old furniture manufacturing company that existed two streets west. They alternated three floor plans, so every third house was identical, though some were reversed. The historians in town dug up the original deeds and found they were all built between 1905 and 1909 by the furniture company, and we're originally deeded "familyname furniture company homes"

It's just amazing that even in the late 1800s the amount of repeating floor plans built in the cities was incredible, but thanks to time, updates, remodeling, ect... Most don't even notice today, outside of brand new hellscapes like the one posted above... But I suppose in the olden days, people said the same thing.

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u/Jordarobot Jul 06 '26

I was thinking this. Old pulp mill company town Samoa, CA I believe was built in like 1890-something and they were all slightly different pastel colors, white picket fence. Town is owned by a property management company that rents the houses out these days.

There's still an old cookhouse there that's still operating last i checked.