“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.
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.
At the end of the day it’s not the details of the pic but the concept conveyed. All the homies, within walking distance, with someone probably available to hang whenever.
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.
I have a small friend group and we go on vacations together all the time. There are about 6 of us then I bring my kids too. We go to beaches, cabins, amusement parks, you name it. It’s awesome. I wish we all lived on the same st too. I bet we could even save some money by cooking meals together more often.
I thought when I had kids I would be out of any kind of group like this but my friends are awesome. Occasionally they will do something and I’ll have to turn it down because it would be too hard but they always keep asking and we ask them too.
This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)
YES I loved that show
I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon
Everyone’s dream =
I’m not seeing an A/C unit on this thing anywhere.
If you have this, you’re already cool enough.
Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.
Calm down Netanyahu
Friend 4 has the best line-of-sight for machine gun nest and sniper fire.
Well that’s a shitty looking commune.
McCommune
Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?
Make it yourself
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.
Channel that energy. Become that fighting couple. Fry angry. Chop resentfully.
I call it “method cooking.”
It’s how I make amazing tomato sauce.
Just make more friends?
My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn’t get old.
I’m fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.
Because it’s 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?
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…
yeah 3 is way too difficult to get materials to the shop
I don’t mind it being in the back instead of a garage, in fact I’d prefer it as it’s farther from the neighbours (less noise over to them), but none at all? deal breaker
Or a Frankensteins monster to terrorize the rest of your friends.
Yeah when I bought my house they asked if I wanted a garage and I said I didn’t care because I’m not super into cars or anything but now I wish I had a garage to put a workshop in. My next house will have one for sure but the car is staying outside haha
Who is out here with that many friends??
Leave some for the rest of us.
Fuck, yeah, I mean 7 friends seems like a lot to manage.
I’m grateful for my collection.
Who has seven friends?!?
I have my DND group, so four there. Plus two more that participate regularly in our discord and hang out periodically.
So six friends, plus spouses so that’s 7 houses occupied.
If any of them elected to keep grass instead of native plants and trees they are out of the cul-de-sac.
I think one lawn/arena for the cul-de-sac is fine. If I had 7 friends, spouses, and kids in that, we’d be playing pick up football/lacrosse/hurley/rugby/ultimate-frisbee all the time.
Yeah the lots should be reconfigured for better utilization. The backsets on the detached units could be reduced, and the buildings clustered to the right/back corner of the property. The Street could be replaced by a laneway on the property line next to the cluster of homes, freeing up the entire left/front for this common area, and garden/greenery etc
With houses no less.
I’m just happy someone else said it.
Six actually, you are one of the seven friends
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.
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.
if you can’t be responsible and respectful with SIX neighbors then you don’t deserve the privilege of owning property.
