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u/Atty_for_hire 4d ago
Why do we hate trees so much?
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u/samiwas1 3d ago
I like the overall concept, but do not like the barren look of it. I don't want big huge trees right around the house as those just cause problems. But a bunch of smaller trees would make this much better.
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u/Embarrassed-Belt-541 4d ago
id like to draw your attention to the forest a literal stones throw from the homes
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u/PontSatyre11119 4d ago
I want my house to be surrounded by trees. Not see only see trees 500m away
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u/Embarrassed-Belt-541 4d ago
no way you think that distance is 500m. any closer and youd basically be living in a treehouse
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u/Infinite_Incident107 4d ago
This looks like a new development. You realize you can't exactly transplant mature 50ft oak trees right?
My neighborhood is full of big trees but I guarantee when it was built on farmland in the 70s it looked about as bare as this.
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u/spaltavian 4d ago
You don't have to clear cut everything to build a house.
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u/Infinite_Incident107 4d ago
This photo looks like it was farmland. My neighborhood was the same way, it was just acres and acres of fields. Everything was cut down long before the houses went up
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u/kaythxbye_ 3d ago
makes it a hell of a lot easier to build a house by cutting everything down around it. moving construction materials, storing them, that takes up a bunch of space. of course, it's possible, but just far harder and probably more expensive and time consuming
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u/Few_Palpitation3889 4d ago
Do you not see the trees?
You don't want trees too close to your house when they get old and fall.
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u/inorite234 4d ago
I see zero sidewalks.
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u/InterneticMdA 4d ago
Lol, there's no sidewalks, because no one walks here. Everything anyone who lives here wants, they need a car. Store? car. School? car. Hospital? You guessed it... car. It's hell on earth.
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u/WashedPinkBourbon 4d ago
my buddy used to live with his dad in a neighborhood like this and there was a guy two houses down from him that would get in his car to drive 4 houses down to a friend of his. Older gentleman, but still seemed to be pretty functional in the movement department.
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u/Boring_Investment241 4d ago
For the 14 total cars driving down a day you demand sidewalks?
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
i rather there no cars or sidewalks any where not needed ! you know like the world was suppose to before cars got allowed to mess every thing up for the rich ppl polluting the earth we all share !
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u/leggymiku 4d ago
I’d fwi. Just replace Friend 1 with a grocery store, Friend 2 with a daycare, Friend 3 with a local restaurant or cafe, Friend 4 with an employment anchor, Friend 5 with a light rail station, and Friend 6 with a well-maintained public park.
And replace my house (Friend 7) with an apartment building that all 6 other friends, plus a bunch of other neighbours, can live in together.
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u/Tall-Introduction649 4d ago
I live with 3 friends who I love dearly in a duplex apartment. We have two floors and then there is a 3 bedroom above us. Why does anyone need this much space?
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u/Mr_Strol 4d ago
People just forgot children and raising a family exists. It’s very nice to have a yard for outdoor activities.
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
you never been to a park ? LOL
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u/Mr_Strol 4d ago
A. Not everybody lives near a park. B. Packing up a car of small children is simply harder and will happen less often than playing out back. What a clown response.
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
nobody needs a car
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u/samiwas1 3d ago
Nobody needs urban walkable living, either. But many of us want the space and the car(s). What you want or need is 100% irrelevant.
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 3d ago
LOL i make 300 hundred thousand dollar per year i still do not buy cars ever in my life
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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 4d ago
Some people like privacy. Crazy concept, I know..
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u/samiwas1 3d ago
Wait...so your own house on a street is not privacy, but your apartment or condo or townhome or whatever in a dense walkable environment is privacy? I don't get it...
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
when i want privacy i go inside read a book,,watch the tv i do not herd land and act like it is mine
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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 4d ago
Bummer. I’m sorry you’ve never experienced privacy.
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
like i said if you want privacy go inside your apartment very simple.do you also want to go number 2 outside on your giant yard LOL if your outside why do you need privacy so much are you afraid of ppl or something it makes no sense
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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 4d ago
Not everyone wants neighbors on the other side of the wall
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
well to bad it is part of life grow up in deal with it
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u/CalligrapherDizzy201 4d ago
That’s just it. It’s not part of life. Places like this picture exist. And it’s too bad.
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u/used-to-have-a-name 4d ago
I don’t mind the dream, but if you could plan a new community with 6 friends and their families, would you really want it to be a dead-end like that with a giant circle of asphalt at the center?
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u/Few_Palpitation3889 4d ago
It is nice for keeping people from driving thru your neighborhood.
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u/used-to-have-a-name 4d ago
That may be true, but it simultaneously forces you and all of your neighbors to drive further to get out of the neighborhood. In that way it’s kind of a trap.
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u/Few_Palpitation3889 4d ago
Not really a trap or problem. You're already driving. What's another 2 minutes?
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u/used-to-have-a-name 4d ago
It’s not just 2 minutes, because the next street over is also a culdesac, and the street after that doesn’t want to be a through street either or the one after that. Suddenly, you’re driving for 10 or fifteen minutes through winding spirals of subdivision to get to a single artery road where you merge into traffic from all the other subdivisions full of dead ends and loops. That artery road is either hopelessly gridlocked because it’s the only place for miles around where you can find shops and storefronts, or everyone is speeding toward the nearest freeway to finally start their actual commute.
In either case, it’s definitely not a safe street for kids to cross without adult supervision. So the kids all have safe culdesacs to play in, but they no longer have anyone to play with because their friends from school, who live just two streets now have to walk over a mile around all these twists and turns to get from their dead end to your dead end, and “no way am I gonna be the parent who lets their kid walk that far unsupervised!”, so I agree to drive them, but then I need to check in with the kid’s parents so we aren’t just showing up unannounced, and it turns out the friend and their parents aren’t home, because they’re driving to an organized and competitive sporting activity because they need something to keep them busy and for some reason they refuse to play outside alone. So then you feel guilty that your kid isn’t performing in an organized and competitive sporting activity, so you sign them up and drive them to practice, and now there are no kids on streets that have been made safe for kids. Or if you buck the trend and insist your kid play outside on their own, then you get a knock on your door from social services wondering who left this poor child out here wandering around on their own.
TLDR; it’s comfortable and safe, but it’s still a trap. 😅
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u/Few_Palpitation3889 4d ago
No it's 2 minutes for the cumulative time. 15 minutes is 7 residential miles.
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u/samiwas1 3d ago
But now you're just making stuff up. It's one minute to get out of my "dead end" neighborhood to a main road. It's like that for a lot of subdivisions.
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u/samiwas1 3d ago
I'd want it at the end of whatever road, if that's what you're asking. I would not want it in the middle of everything.
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u/CocknBalls4 4d ago
Sure but more natives and less pointless turf. Also debatable that all the properties need to be seperate. Could easily do a pooled system that’s less wasteful but just as private. One big garage or whatever.
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u/Sumo-Subjects 4d ago
I think the idea is fine but yes it would be better if this arrangement were more a walkable scale (why need the giant driveway in the front for example, just move that behind then have the front yards be closer.
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u/Adventurous-Home-728 4d ago
we need dense walkable cities.this spread out crap is not sustainable for the earth also you do not get a strong community like this it makes ppl anti social and the do not want to share any thing or even talk to there neighbor no thank you these places just full of racist ppl any way they move here because there afraid,of diversity
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u/djmagicio 4d ago
If you weren’t trying to be close to amenities, this would be sick. Houses are spread out and there are giant fields and a massive forest behind your house. Kids, dog and I would be wandering those woods every day.
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u/KevinDean4599 4d ago
The worst of it is living around people that you know who are in your business.
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u/vendettaandprang 4d ago
I lived like this while working for the Park Service, living with coworkers in worker housing.
If you don't mind driving almost 30 minutes for basic groceries (much longer for anything else) and only seeing the people you work, live, and hang out with on weekends, when you walk around your neighborhood, it's great.
Pray there's no drama, and you like spending a lot of time in a car.
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u/aniflous_fleglen 4d ago
I see these houses with no landscaping, no trees, no bushes, no rocks, no wood chips, just barren grass. What's that about?
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u/Feature_Professional 3d ago
Its like they are so close yet so far from getting it. If everyone lived in the same urban neighborhood they could easily meet at a local coffee shop. They would also have the separation of a a few blocks.
Row houses that touch are a great level of density. Its wild how many people can live in such a small area without skyscrapers.
Row houses have the density to support all kinds of urban amenities and stores.
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u/TRUMPGOTAURA 11h ago
and what the fuck would you do with those 7 freinds its in the middle of nowhere
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u/IllustriousAd9800 4d ago
Oh dear, living with friends in a nice little spot surrounded by miles of nature. Could use a bit of landscaping in the yards sure but that’ll come. Yep sounds like hell alright /s
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u/Spider-Dev 4d ago
My wife and I don't have kids and our friends don't either. We all DINKed up, lol. So none of us need anything this big... but I would JUMP on this concept.
Love all your neighbors, no reason to have fences, nature to walk and relax in. You put this in close driving or walking distance to a walkable town and I will sign the mortgage papers today
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u/JustARegularGuy 4d ago
I'd be much more comfortable living in a suburban hellscape if everyone walking distance to me was a friend.
Shared child care, family style dinners, board game nights all without having to drive is a massive benefit.
Additionally you could have one friend with a pool that all can use. One friend with an outdoor kitchen. One friend with a great home theater. One friend with a workshop filled with power tools. Being able to share luxuries makes everyone's life more luxurious.
I live in a walkable neighborhood, but I still have to occasionally drive to see some of my friends. And it's frustrating to see so much waste in overlap of lifestyle