if you can't be responsible and respectful with SIX neighbors then you don't deserve the privilege of owning property.
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Yeah had a neighbor that would just pop in all the time. It was cool until it wasn’t. We moved and barely speak now. I think I know one person in my new neighborhood and it’s very much just an acquaintance.
Everyone's dream =
I'm not seeing an A/C unit on this thing anywhere.
If you have this, you're already cool enough.
No one outside of high school has six friends.
No one makes friends with six random neighbors. And certainly they don't all consider each other friends.
There's a reason this is called a "dream".
No one outside of high school has six friends.
Me, a guy with maybe a dozen friends I hang out with on a weekly basis, whistling past the graveyard of loneliness
There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.
One trick to living in a cul de sac with six of your closest friends is to meet your neighbors and become friends with them. I'll say that COVID really helped me with this, personally, because during the peak I was just out on the driveway or walking the local trails trying not to go stir crazy and... so was everyone else. Pretty soon we were doing impromptu parties on the driveway and yoga on the lawn and whatever else we could to avoid the isolation of a pandemic.
But you don't need a killer virus to wave to your neighbors, say hi, and strike up a conversation. And there's a compounding effect. When two people are out talking, you're likely to pick up a third. When five people are hanging out at the end of a day, it can quickly become ten or more.
If it's an instinctual response to wish for this kind of thing, it shouldn't be hard to imagine people gravitating towards these relationships IRL.
prove it
I suddenly remember all those 80s and 90s sitcoms where the friends live right nearby and wall right into each others homes without knocking and just start talking without any greetings. This picture is just as unrealistic.
"It would get old fast"? Op, I'm afraid you don't have good friends. When I was a university student, I was in a shared apartment with two friends. It was great: you always had someone to do stuff with and group activities were much easier to schedule.
Now that I'm older it would be nice to easily check who's up for something, spontaneously grill with everyone or simply sit together in the evening and talk.
My friends group still goes on vacation together from time to time and I love it. If your friends are only enjoyable in small doses... I don't know... that sounds sad.
Also with a house of your own, everyone would have enough space to retreat if necessary.
Besides from the bad gardening that was mentioned by the other posts, I would love to live like this.
Man, this. I moved in with a friend to my first apartment like 10 years ago. With two more a couple floors down.
Nowadays all 4 of us live in a big house together and it's great. Sure there's some conflict, but at the end we're still friends and we can reconcile like adults. I'd move more of our close friends in if we had the space. We even briefly had a 5th housemate when he was between apartments and that was cramped, but still actually very nice.
Good friends is the key - to me, this sounds great. I have plenty of friends I'd love to have this close, it might even be hard to pick "just" 6.
The only problem I see here is the lack of fences, trees, and plants. And the size of the houses is a bit too big for my needs.
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Houses are too big + the yards too small.
No thanks.
I'll never understand why US suburbs like to utterly nuke any kind of nature around their houses and replace it with "lawns". Like, I'd rip that stuff out and at least plant some potats and shit immediately.
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I literally cannot comprehend secured housing. Its like a dragon or unicorn. Sounds rad AF, but 10,000% unrealistic.
secured housing
I'm not familiar with this term. help?
I think they mean not renting? Or maybe living in a defensible space??
Right. "Comprehend" is the wrong word, it should have been they can't imagine ever having secured housing.
I know what it means, but not 100% sure it applies here
it means stable & affordable. like your landlord can't kick you out, and your rent won't be jacked up unreasonably
it means stable & affordable. like your landlord can’t kick you out, and your rent won’t be jacked up unreasonably
yeah that would be the best interpretation, hopefully the right one. thanks!
Pretty sure he meant gated community.
Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.
Calm down Netanyahu
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My aunt and her family lived in a place like this. It was such a weird vibe. We never walked or rode our bikes anywhere, we just played in the yard.
This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)
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I'd be so into this if there was something we could all walk to at the end of the block. Like a main st or something
Friend 3 runs the pub at the end of the block. Doesn't even need a car.
Or a large wall with cannons and machine guns to keep out any trucks with flags on them.
I consider the ideal distance for friends and family to be 1hr walk/5-10 min drive.
Except for my youngest sister. For her, an Emirates gold flyer program.
Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.
- House needs to be in the mountains
- Fuck lawns
- I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
- If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
- This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE
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Friend 3 over there without even a driveway, we know who the charity case is lol
More just staring at the endless expanse of mowed lawn and wondering who is doing all that manual labor.
That’s Kenny’s house
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Well that's a shitty looking commune.
McCommune
I'm fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.
Slop.
That aside, I choose friend 3. The only one without a driveway. Though if I did have a garage, I could establish my workshop there, hm...
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I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 6 other friends.
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It looks like a hell to me. No fences for the dogs and other pets. No hegges for privacy Big grass a lit of work at least once a onth.
An 'enfer c'est les autres' kinda place.
Because it's 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?
My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn't get old.
I've seen people rag on the suburbia of it all but no one has questioned the premise. If the suburban housing was the premise, then it shouldn't matter who the neighbors are and the length of time would be irrelevant: you just wouldn't want to live in the suburbs.
The premise is implying something about the idea of living by friends is masking the inherent problems with the situation. And that mask would fall off after some time had passed. But, if you don't like the suburbs as 90% of y'all felt compelled to make clear, why would that be suppressed and only resurface after time passes?
Why would living by friends turn into a nightmare scenario? If you can't stand being neighbors with them, then I'd argue you guys weren't really friends. Or you have novel ideas about how much you have to interact with neighbors.
Me and the wife befriended the neighbours during lockdown. Hung out all the time, went on several holidays together.
Still pals, was round at one of theirs for dinner the other day.
Lived even closer than this for years. Didn’t get old. Miss it. But had to move on from the communal garden space for the kids.
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