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02 February 2007

My idea of heaven would be to live somewhere that looks like this.

post by: BoringPostcards at: 12:24 | 15 comments

When I was a kid, I really thought the world was going to look like that when I grew up.

Instead, we got this:

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Bah.

posted by BoringPostcards 02 February | 12:27

little houses
on the hillside
and they're all made
out of ticky tacky...

posted by chewatadistance 02 February | 12:32

That kind of thing is funny when it's a joke in Edward Scissorhands, but increasingly stomach-churning as it becomes ubiquitous in the real world.

Heaven might look like this, but then, too, heaven might look just like the Blue Ridge.

posted by Wolfdog 02 February | 12:41

Remember when we were kids, before the Berlin Wall came down, when they'd show pictures of Eastern Europe and the horrible state-sponsored sameness of everything just seemed so freakin' depressing? That's what developments remind me of. Even the really, really expensive ones. I look at them and think of bread lines and tapped phone lines.

posted by jrossi4r 02 February | 12:53

Me too, jrossi4r!! I'm always saying that... we'll drive by some new condo development or McMansion subdivision, and discuss whether they look more like barracks or like old Soviet housing projects.

posted by BoringPostcards 02 February | 12:57

I just want a place where I can't see the neighbors' houses.

Failing that:

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"We're space explorers, and we need space!" -Keith, leader of the Voltron Force

posted by Eideteker 02 February | 13:01

Actually, if no one's FPP'ed O'Neill cylinders, et al, on MeFi, I'm going to do so. No one steal my idea [, please]!

posted by Eideteker 02 February | 13:02

the horrible state-sponsored sameness of everything
Oh, I don't know what you're talking about.
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posted by Wolfdog 02 February | 13:04

ahem

Most of have prolly seen it already, but for those that ahven't

posted by edgeways 02 February | 13:16

Ok, done.

Sorry for the derail.

posted by Eideteker 02 February | 13:43

discuss whether they look more like barracks or like old Soviet housing projects.

*laugh* I know more than a few places where the latter would be the go to description.

And Gawd do I hate front garages that take up 40+% of the front facade. The streets they dominate manage to be ugly, forbidding and unfriendly all at the same time. If we've got to have developments without alleys let's at least have side drives.

posted by Mitheral 02 February | 15:35

My wife and are planning our escape from the suburbs this year. Right now we live in a condo-townhouse development that looks a lot like the second picture posted above. We're going to move back into the city and buy a real townhouse built in the 19th century. And then I can walk to my office in the morning, Yea!

posted by octothorpe 02 February | 21:24

That's awesome, octothorpe... what city are you in?

I hope you're buying your townhouse for under 1 million dollars... it depresses me that only millionaires can live in "walkable neighborhoods" anymore. (Esp. since those fuckers never walk anywhere.)

posted by BoringPostcards 02 February | 22:56

BP, Pittburgh. No, It's one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city, but we're only planning 225K or so. That's fully restored, you can find a fixer-upper for around 100K.

posted by octothorpe 03 February | 13:53

Oh, there are almost no million dollar houses here in the 'burgh. You'd be hard put to find a place that costs more than 1/2 a million in the city.

posted by octothorpe 03 February | 13:54

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