Future of American Dream 🏡

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Future of American Dream 🏡 - Lemmy Today

That price makes no sense.
Of course, it does! Tiny homes are hip now, and they still want to fuck us for every penny we have.
As someone who has lived in San Antonio that is a lot of money to give up on personal happiness.
Why would you want 2 baths for a single bedroom house…
when you and your wife both have to take a massive shit in the morning
Have you lived with another human that needs to shit at same time as you? It definitely happens.
Just get 1 bathroom with 2 toilets
Side by side or facing each other?
Facing one another so you can hold hands for support during your times of struggle.
Do you prefer cooperative multiplayer or competitive multiplayer?
Just sit on the other’s lap and drop that double decker deuce, my friend. Also saves water with a single flush.
You underestimate my power.
Hell yeah. Or if u have to piss while your wife is shitting just have her spread her legs and go in between. Gotta be on point with ur aim tho.
What if one of you is dropping nuggets and the other is “draining the oil pan” with a bout of IBS? You need to be sure who’s the bottom deck.

This can be solved by the technology of just waiting a few minutes until they are done.

If you have the space for two bathrooms then sure, go ahead, but the argument here is that there isn’t really space for it.

Piss off. You’ve obviously never lived with someone and experienced the moments it was critical to use the toilet.

Ever lived with someone while both of you were ill and had diarrhea?

Your reply is ignorant.

You can have a separate half bath for guests.
That would be 1.5 bathrooms, not 2.
One for the ensuite, one for the “main” bathroom when guests are over it whatever. I assume there’s still a living room of sorts.

You are right, check out the 3D tour:

www.zillow.com/homedetails/…/2053945461_zpid/

Looks really cramped…

I like that they don’t even try to fit a bed in that small ass room
It’s at the back of the room.
Do you people not have guests over? Do you want them traipsing upstairs and using your bath room?
Uhm yeah? In Europe it’s pretty common to just have one bathroom and just… Wait for the other person to be done.

✅ Lawn

✅ Driveway that fits two cars

✅ Two baths

✅ Not sharing walls with neighbor

That driveway does not fit two cars
One of them in the pic has two cars. Of course, the ass is sticking into the road a bit but ehhhh it counts.
In a lot of places you can get a ticket for blocking the sidewalk.
I’m thinking sidewalks aren’t being used much, if at all, in this fine Texas community.
Yeah maybe. An HOA would fine them for it regardless.

I wonder if you’d be allowed to park on the street, like parallel park, blocking your own driveway? Or maybe there is guest parking. Otherwise I can never see how you would have company over. Or share that place with a significant other.

Otherwise, they don’t look too bad. Wished there were pics of the interior.

Mass transit of course… Lol
Bottom right seems to be able to squeeze two cars.
While blocking the footpath making your disabled/pushchair-pushing/child neighbours life just a little bit more unsafe and harder.

disabled/pushchair-pushing/child

Uh, blocked sidewalks is the least of their concern if they live in these 1 bedroom houses. Where’s the child going to sleep? In one of two baths?

“It’s ok to inconvenience people, because they probably have bigger inconveniences bothering them”
I wouldn’t block a sidewalk too, just making fun of that guy having two cars in a mini driveway in a tiny single bedroom house with lawn. You seem to be taking this meme too seriously. Does the downvote even necessary (it’s public btw, unlike in reddit)? This is a meme community, not latestagecapitalism.
√ same price as a real house for an adult
They’re so tiny. They’d might as well make an apartment complex or multi-family homes.

at the very least put them into cottage clusters with centralized parking lots facing the road, that wins you a significant amount of space efficiency and makes it a way nicer area to be in.

seriously, look up photos of cottage clusters, it baffles me that anyone could say that’s not the ideal way to do single family housing.

If you would leave out that damn car and made the house taller, you would have like 3 times the space, which is totally enough. Not for that money though.

I mean my first house was a two bed, 1 bath 900sq ft cape code in a much cheaper market. I paid 100k for it in 2005.

Honestly that seems like a pretty good deal for a first home. If you can come up with 10% down you’ll be paying ~1500 a month. Refi when rates go down and you could be close to 1k/mo.

The houses are so close together and have so little yard I don’t see why they didn’t just turn them into townhouses.
Probably local planning restrictions, they’re quite fucked up in the states.
Plus, people are obviously superstitious about shared walls.
What a poor use of land and space for housing. Why not increase density with at a minimum a duplex or triplex? This is ridiculous.
Not to mention half of the lot and interior square footage is dedicated to a car.

Right??? How about increased density with amenities at a maximum 15 minute walk distance and public transportation?

Where the fuck are the trees in that picture? Where’s the shade? How far are things if everybody needs a car? How bad must traffic be in the morning and evening at rush hour? It’s just a concentrated suburb with all of its problems intensified.

A lot of people don’t want to share walls.

“Hey uh, I have 3 loud kids and a wife who is loud during sex. Wanna be my neighbor?”

Exactly. If I’m working nights and need to use power tools in my home? No problem. In an apartment? Good luck
Unless you’re living way out on a farm a mile away from your neighbors, even if you live in a detached home in a suburb, you still have to respect noise bylaws. Especially with power tools.

a farm a mile away

That is the dream for many. Lots of farm land is being turned into housing in this way.

what? do you think people in apartments never use power tools?

just keep it between 10 in the morning and 10 in the evening and you’re fine.

I specifically mentioned working nights… I guess I could’ve been more clear that the power tools are for work.

I have a small shop set up in my basement that allows after-hours work without disturbing the neighbours (two walls with 10ft+ between them will beat any apartment wall assembly for sound transmission), within reason for the noise I’m making of course.

Then maybe develop the concept of a brick wall and social skills.

These types of houses won’t protect you from noise. You’re never more than 5m away from your neighbors and only separated by cardboard. You will hear them.

I’m currently living in an apartment building from 1910 or so, made from proper bricks. Hardly ever even notice that I have neighbors.

Can confirm. I currently live in the suburbs, with a fairly wide lot (100ft). In the warm months, there is almost never a moment of daylight where I can’t hear lawn equipment (lawnmowers, leaf blowers, etc). And my house is well-built and sealed properly. For some reason, everyone thinks they need a giant riding mower or an enormous gas-powered leaf blower. There are lawn service contractors parked on the road almost all the time. The winter months aren’t as bad, but snow blowers are out at the slightest hint of snow.

I had a much quieter experience when I lived in an apartment building. It’s anecdotal, but it makes sense once you’ve lived in both.

Yeah, it’s almost impossible to build with bricks in California. (Earthquakes)
It’s a real shame we don’t have any other methods of acoustical insulation…
Then try concrete instead. For European mid-rise firewalls, that‘s pretty much standard.