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Brute Squad posted:seems like a good deal I know what you're thinking and sure you could burn down your house on the cheap, but a match is cheaper still. Pro tip: you can ask to borrow a lighter for a moment and burn the house for no money at all.
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By popular demand posted:Pro tip: you can ask to borrow a lighter for a moment and burn the house for no money at all. Plus, free lighter.
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If you trap the owner of said lighter in the burning ruin, yeah. #Liffheacks
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HelloIAmYourHeart posted:I need answers. The twitter replies were of no help (although I did like the one that said it was an eruv). I don't know the story on this one, but there was pictures from a similar situation in China a while back. One company had the right to run cables through a spot, and another company had the right to build a residential structure there. Neither company was willing to pay to reroute the cables safely around the structure so the cables were running right through apartments and a stairwell. The apartments were pre-sold, so the new owners arrived in their brand new apartments with no clue about the cable dispute. It could also be a result of a "it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" situation where something was built without all the proper permissions and a utility company that had the legal right to a pass through that airspace pushed ahead despite the construction of living space. Nobody is willing to negotiate so you end up with chaos. A similar thing happened in Egypt recently with the Teraet Al-Zomor Bridge. A property developer built condos right up to the edge of the property line, no set back. A bridge, planned for a while, is being built 50cm away from the condos, again right up to the property line. The individual units are all privately owned by people who claim they were told the construction had all the proper permissions and had no warning a highway was going to be an arm's length from their balconies. The state says the buildings are illegal, the owners say they have permits from 2008. Or, uh, something like that.    https://www.arabnews.com/node/1673876/middle-east quote:CAIRO: Construction work on a bridge built a hairline away from residential apartment buildings in Cairo has sent social media abuzz. quote:Mahmoud Nassar, head of the Central Agency for Construction in Egypt, said that the bridge was crucial and will be useful to the neighborhood.
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I'd be selling drinks and poo poo to people sitting in traffic jams. MrChrome posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEiNKZWe3kw I was listening to Laffy Taffy on Youtube, and put it on mute to watch this. I want that 52 seconds back.
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tinytort posted:Which is why kids are notorious for getting their heads stuck in between the balusters. They're usually just narrow enough that a small child can't squeeze their whole body between them, but not so narrow that they can't get their head through. I just remembered when my nephew was playing on the stairs and my sister told him to cut it out because he'd fall off and he said "that's what we're going for here" and fell off the stairs. (The handrail is just iron pipe without balusters. I don't think one like it could be built nowadays.)
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Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out.
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Something about how organised and symmetrical this is creeps me out, I'm used to city blocks kinda growing uncontrollably next to each other.
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FCKGW posted:Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out. On the plus side, no yard work. Better hope that the neighbors aren’t assholes - odds are the sound insulation will be poo poo and you’ll be able to hear anything above a conversation.
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FCKGW posted:Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out. How is it supposed to work 
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3D Megadoodoo posted:How is it supposed to work Those are all single family homes but there's like one big shared driveway. They're called "six packs" by the builder Here's what it looks like while being built 
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FCKGW posted:Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out. this is downright lovecraftian also Sentient Data posted:Every garage is a hyperloop elevator, of course
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I'd rather live in the woods next to a retention pond. Jesus that's neighborhood cancer. Every house comes with its own Live.Laugh.Love. sign because only the most basic suburbanites would ever occupy that poo poo.
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Love it when all my windows face directly into my neighbours' walls. Why even bother having separate units at that point, just build a new Kowloon walled city Wasabi the J posted:I'm also certain that those suburbs are food deserts. Regular deserts too; barely a spot of green in that pic.
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we have those going up in the city I'm in on lots where a gas station used to be or whatever. For the price of the ones here they better be loving soundproof
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Renaissance Robot posted:Regular deserts too; barely a spot of green in that pic. These are all in old dairy farms in SoCal so yeah, desert chaparral that was turned into fertilizer and cow poo poo pastures, now a great place to raise a family. At least all new housing here has to have solar and can only be landscaped with native plants, no lawns allowed. (buyer is free to put in their own lawn after the fact however)
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Here's a planned community near me called "The Preserve" that completely surrounds an active dairy farm. You can see the pools of liquid cow poo poo in the bottom left of the farm. White building in the middle is a very fancy school. High voltage power lines cut diagonally through the development there. Oh and there's an airport just north as well.  Houses start at $500k.
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Holy poo poo thats Chino at the top left. Those people are in for a hell of a surprise. poo poo, there’s a warbird fly-in or air show going on in the current google satellite image.
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FCKGW posted:Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out. Christ; they're right on top of each other.
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A master switch AND individual physical disconnects? Sounds almost TOO safe.
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I just want to know where the Romex's go.
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Thought this was a Pickle Rick sculpture when I first saw it.
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FCKGW posted:Here's a planned community near me called "The Preserve" that completely surrounds an active dairy farm. You can see the pools of liquid cow poo poo in the bottom left of the farm. White building in the middle is a very fancy school. I have to remind myself when people talk about how horrible the suburbs are, these are the kinds of developments they are talking about. I live in an older suburb, but we have 1.5 acre lots, lots of mature trees between/on properties, no HOA, and different looking houses.
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B-Nasty posted:I have to remind myself when people talk about how horrible the suburbs are, these are the kinds of developments they are talking about. I live in an older suburb, but we have 1.5 acre lots, lots of mature trees between/on properties, no HOA, and different looking houses. A suburb with 1.5 acre lots is a worse suburb than one with 50' x 100' lots, because the one with 1.5 acre lots requires a car. Older streetcar suburbs were packed together in grid fashion so that they could access public transportation and were walkable to neighborhood shops and services. Obviously the housing developments posted above are awful, ugly, and also require a car (though the "houses around a central court" thing can work well if the court is green space and not just a parking lot) but in general more density is a good thing.
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Youth Decay posted:A suburb with 1.5 acre lots is a worse suburb than one with 50' x 100' lots, because the one with 1.5 acre lots requires a car. That’s one hot take And opposite of the preferences of basically everyone who isn’t living in a large walkable city
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I live in a 1950's suburb with 5k sqft lots and it still requires a car to get much of anywhere...mostly because it's really hilly though. There is a legit grocery store and other shopping about half a mile from my house, but I wouldn't want to walk it regularly. At least there's like three bus stops within a perfectly reasonable/flat distance.CarForumPoster posted:That’s one hot take A suburb composed of 1.5-acre lots (each one ~13x larger than the ones in my neighborhood) is not realistically possible to make walkable because the density is so low. Like, I get it, people enjoy having lots of space to themselves, but you do realize how wasteful it is, right?
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CarForumPoster posted:That’s one hot take
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FCKGW posted:Poking around on google maps and saw this housing development going in near me. I know how it's supposed to work but it's still freaking me out. This doesn't look too bad to me, but then I grew up on a middle class Brazilian neighborhood. We did have actual streets going between the houses though.
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If you’re going to pack the houses that closely together, just make them terraced houses.
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Youth Decay posted:A suburb with 1.5 acre lots is a worse suburb than one with 50' x 100' lots, because the one with 1.5 acre lots requires a car. Oh no, a car! I know the dyed-in-the-wool city folks can't imagine it, but being able to drive a short distance to a huge supermarket to load up can be better than having to walk and carry back from a small, limited-stock, overpriced local market. In any case, it doesn't look like those suburban images posted had walkable shops. More like endless rows of houses in the middle of nowhere that still would require a car.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:A suburb composed of 1.5-acre lots (each one ~13x larger than the ones in my neighborhood) is not realistically possible to make walkable because the density is so low. Like, I get it, people enjoy having lots of space to themselves, but you do realize how wasteful it is, right? having a living space you enjoy being in isn't wasteful
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