Future of American Dream 🏡

✅ Lawn

✅ Driveway that fits two cars

✅ Two baths

✅ Not sharing walls with neighbor

To me, a european, those urban areas packed with the same house over and over again always seem so depressing and boring. Is there any variety or does it look like this for kilometers miles?

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.

Why would you want 2 baths for a single bedroom house....

60m2 for people who don’t know yee haw units

What's the use of having 2 bathrooms when there is only 1 bedroom?

You can’t buy a shed for that price where I live. An apartment of that size would be $2500+ per month.

I don’t want this to be the future but it’s better than a future where no one can buy anything at all.

What is amazing is that people would rather live like this, and have four feet of grass between them and their neighbors, than in a place twice as big with a shared wall...

"Listen, you're gonna live as the markets dictate. The labour markets, the consumer markets... are you listening?"

*me, lighting the Molotov coctail*

Ah-huh. Continue.

The absolute state of American urban planning. Jesus.

US-americans: apartments suck, I want a single house

Also US-americans:

Meanwhile, in the civilised world:

The houses are so close together and have so little yard I don't see why they didn't just turn them into townhouses.

Honestly not a bad deal if you live alone. Make an offer for 130k and settle for 145k then get approved for a loan with APR around 5% and you could be making monthly payments under 600 USD for 20 years. That's a lot lower than rent, I'll tell you that, and you can get your equity back at the end when you move.

Only issue is the loan term, variable property value, and if you're actually buying the land or just the abode.

That price makes no sense.

I thought this was a farce. It is real

The second car in the bottom driveway is partly in the road. This first cat is either partly in a garage, or missing. The driveways are so close that there is no street parking. I have concerns about buses (think school, not public transit) and garbage day.

What the actual fuck is that?

It's like a fully detached apartment you can buy.

Honestly, I'd rather have one of those shipping container homes. Above that, I'll live in a fucking trailer park.

Why 2 bath? What idiot came up with this?

Why would you need two bathrooms if you've only got one bedroom??

For fucks sake just drop four shipping containers, rig them, dry wall them, and walk away. 150k for that and it's got a little fancy art fling to it? That's fucking insulting.

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.

Literally half the house is a garage. This is fucking hell.

It's not even a garage.

people will complain about being forced to live in pods and then willingly live in places like this

That's not terrible honestly. The price will vary widely depending on where it is. It seems like a good low maintenance place.

That garage door is way to small and they forgot to build the appropriate house.

I love that Americans would still rather have crappy rectangles of lawn that they never use for anything than build up to the edge of the plot and have more rooms. Those plots are probably slightly bigger than that of my three bedroom terrace house.

I'm begging developers to stop.

The problem isn't "not enough houses," the problem is rich fuck "investors" buying up all the empty houses to sit on them

Pro: Can walk to Whataburger and Gold's Gym

Con: Literally directly underneath high voltage wires

Lennar is an insanely bad builder. They have no quality control. Whole neighborhoods with out of spec engineering and they rely on people being unable or unwilling to fight them.

It's like a suburban tract home developer with a case of brain worms tried to build townhomes based solely on a verbal description he got from space alien visiting Brooklyn for the first time, relayed over a cell phone with one bar of reception.

They're so tiny. They'd might as well make an apartment complex or multi-family homes.

What's the dumb obsession with 2 bathrooms?

We need some 1500sqft 2br/2ba homes near major metro areas for under 400k. In today’s economy that would be achievable for most people.

The only options near major cities are 2500+sqft homes or 650sqft condos going for $700k+.

I don’t think I have ever seen a 2br/2ba detached home… it’s either shoebox condos or 4+ bedrooms going for the same ridiculous 700k+ price tag.

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And yet you'll bitch about the starter home going away.

Huge building with flats would be more efficient.

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.

No gutters

As someone who has lived in San Antonio that is a lot of money to give up on personal happiness.