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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 12 points 9 hours ago

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.

[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 3 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Make it yourself

[–] MBech@feddit.dk 8 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Vietnamese food just isn't the same unless it comes from a far to small kitchen, with some ancient vietnamese couple yelling at each other. Can really taste that passion.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 14 points 10 hours ago

Because it's 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

Plus that big wide field where your kids are going to be snacked up by rocs.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 30 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Well that's a shitty looking commune.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 14 points 11 hours ago

McCommune

[–] NONE_dc@lemmy.world 50 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)

[–] kadup@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago

I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon

[–] ordnance_qf_17_pounder@reddthat.com 9 points 12 hours ago

YES I loved that show

[–] joyjoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 hours ago

HFIL

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 20 points 12 hours ago

My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn't get old.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 51 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

  1. House needs to be in the mountains
  2. Fuck lawns
  3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
  4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
  5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE
[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 21 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Your home can look like this. No HOA needed!

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Works for me! I’d love to say I built a house. That’s real accomplishment.

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

That really would be the bomb!

[–] KSPAtlas@sopuli.xyz 4 points 7 hours ago

this would be the perfect place to write a book about how much you hate the industrialised world

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There’s one guy I want to hang out with regularly. He can have the adjoining 150 acres and we’ll put a shack full of liquor with some comfy chairs on the border.

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 5 points 8 hours ago

That’s a valuable thing to hold onto. Everyone needs and deserves companionship.

My wife is my best friend. We both work from home, so we spend like 90% of our time together.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 8 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Im with you. I'd love my 2 best friends and my sibling to live next to us, but im surrounded by woods and farmers and I very much like it that way. Yall can keep your suburban mcmansion cul-de-sac, life in the holler is much nicer.

I got to play with baby goats all yesterday morning 💜

[–] orca@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Your life is a dream. Daily real connection to the world and the creatures that make it great.

Our yard is wild and I let it run loose, with only some control. The southeast is getting old though. I’m a northerner that yearns for the snow and mountains again.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Id tell you to come to the Blue Ridge but the winters already aren't what they used to be. It's a damn shame. I grew up in South Florida till I moved here so I LOVED WINTER.

Nowadays February is just gross.

I still love it here but with the sadness of seeing a friend quietly die.

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[–] Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de 179 points 19 hours ago (38 children)

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.

[–] tamal3@lemmy.world 15 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

It's just that much easier for developers to raze all plants to the ground before grading and running other heavy equipment. These are new construction and so those developers aren't accountable to anyone, and I'm sure the local jurisdiction doesn't care. That's not a justification, for what it's worth, just an explanation.

What I've never been sure of is why people don't eventually realize how much nicer everything would be if they just replanted trees (or left them in the first place) but they seem to be used to suburban hell. If you drive everywhere it's less of an issue that your environment is shit.

[–] Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 7 points 13 hours ago (5 children)

You're assuming people who are forced to buy into the suburban hell have a choice.

If a person had a choice between a 100k house in a suburban hell or a 100k house in secluded heaven. That they pick the suburban hell.

Have you seen the housing market in the US?

It's also funny how "Suburban" meaning has changed. It's supposed to be non-urban.

But with these "suburban" neighborhoods in cities. It has basically became a word for a neighborhood with houses built next to each other and less about where it's located.

Suburbs use to be an inexpensive option as opposed to urban living.

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

Can confirm. I am trapped in suburbia for at least three more years.

I can’t wait to head for the hills.

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[–] Almonds@mander.xyz 4 points 11 hours ago

A lawn is generally easier to take care of than a collection of various plants and trees. First thing I do at any new home is plant a fuck ton of edible plants, and my neighbors always talk about not having the time or energy to do the same

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[–] BoosBeau@lemmy.world 15 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

Who is out here with that many friends??

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago

Leave some for the rest of us.

[–] BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Fuck, yeah, I mean 7 friends seems like a lot to manage.

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[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 22 points 15 hours ago (3 children)

Where does friend 3 park?

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 15 points 13 hours ago

Friend 3 subscribes to c/FuckCars.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 15 points 15 hours ago (9 children)

do you not see the giant cul de sac right in the middle

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[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 63 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (2 children)

I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 6 other friends.

[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org 3 points 9 hours ago

None of Friends 1-7 are you

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[–] megopie@beehaw.org 26 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (1 children)

The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with was a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

[–] pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 hours ago

presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

I've visited friends in such areas. It is hell.

They say "it's so nice that nothing is more than 20 minutes away", while ignoring the fact that nothing is less than 20 minutes away.

They can't even have a corner grocer (due to shitty zoning laws) and they don't realize how much of their daily life their car eats.

[–] auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.com 31 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

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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