Breetai posted:

No-one cares to hear about the tragedy of the commons.

doverhog posted:

The Ape of Naples posted:

Pardon my American ignorance but I wouldn't think communal apartment pools would be that big in Finland. It's not surprising. Nor are they in NY to be honest. In Florida, yeah I think they're a thing.

hawowanlawow posted:

yea I have never used an apartment pool and I never see anyone hanging out in the community areas

a couple years ago the apartment complex across the street from mine had a crazy dude freak out in the common courtyard and stab his two year old son to death while people were watching from their balconies. someone ended up shooting him

RareAcumen posted:

The Ape of Naples posted:

She should get out of that pool. Her fingers are turning blue.

Data Graham posted:

Apartment buildings in California (especially in suburban LA) are basically the same layout as every Mediterranean-esque motel: a central courtyard with a pool, surrounded by two stories of apartments with inward-facing open-air corridors, fronting on the street with a blind wall with a metal gate, crammed together with five thousand similar buildings all in a row as the street recedes into the faraway smog.

Milo and POTUS posted:

WHAT THE gently caress

CannonFodder posted:

She's wearing gloves

Lobok posted:

I mean, we've all seen Melrose Place.

Lobok posted:

I mean, we've all seen Melrose Place.

tsaofen posted:

Or Karate Kid?

Like...seriously, people.

Also I would post a funny picture but it's been a year since I've owned a computer and I have apparently aged out of being able to use the internet in that time. Sorry.

tsaofen posted:

Or Karate Kid?

Like...seriously, people.

Also I would post a funny picture but it's been a year since I've owned a computer and I have apparently aged out of being able to use the internet in that time. Sorry.

The Ape of Naples posted:

WHAT THE gently caress

Elfface posted:

As someone who comes from England, I may just be showing ignorance, but...

Apartment Pool? The gently caress? If you only have one floor, how do you also have a pool? And how is it easier to put one in that space than it is to move somewhere with more floors?

I'm not saying rich people aren't crazy. London's desire for private pools has led to a huge amount of buried construction equipment, because there are maximum height restrictions on buildings, but you can go as deep as you want so long as you don't hit the tube, plus it's cheaper to just bury the digger and build the pool on top of it than it is to get it out again.

But supporting enough water to swim in means a huge amound of reinforcement of the floor below, so you'd be buying multiple floors anyway then... aaaargh!

Inceltown posted:

After a while in those pools your hands get wrinkly and it's hard to hold your beer as easily. The gloves provide the grip.

bike tory posted:

For real? Even New Zealand apartment blocks often have a lap pool and a (small, lovely) gym, especially new ones.

Also it seems like what most people itt are calling apartment blocks we call townhouses, so when I say apartment block I mean a tall rear end building with like 5-20 floors of usually 1-3 bedroom dwellings. What do people call those if not "apartment blocks"?

Super Waffle posted:

Condominiums

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

The big difference in apartment styles in the US compared to everywhere else is that in the US, if you don't live in a dense urban environment like NYC, you live in a sprawling endless suburb. There isn't really a countryside in most of the nation, it's just a never ending blanket of low rise apartment complexes and strip malls.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Lol how wrong

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Can you tell me how? I'm going off the experience I have. I am honored that your second post ever itt is to tell me I'm wrong though, so thank you.

Master Twig posted:

I can't tell if you're trolling or not, but the overwhelming, vast majority of the US is countryside, covering pretty much every biome from farmland, to mountains, forests, plains, swamps and deserts.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

Can you tell me how? I'm going off the experience I have. I am honored that your second post ever itt is to tell me I'm wrong though, so thank you.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I should have clarified that the only places you are likely to find apartments like this are on the coasts or around major cities, where most of the country lives. The whole apartment complex thing isn't really a factor in the middle of the Great Plains, but it sure as hell is in, say, Florida. What I mean by "no countryside" is that you don't leave a city and drive through hill and dale until the next town; it's an unbroken sprawl of urban development in the areas in question.

The Orlando metro area for instance, is like 12 cities all mashed together into one huge urban area.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Are you trying to compare the entire country to orlando?

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I should have clarified that the only places you are likely to find apartments like this are on the coasts or around major cities, where most of the country lives. The whole apartment complex thing isn't really a factor in the middle of the Great Plains, but it sure as hell is in, say, Florida.

Data Graham posted:

Megalopoli like Orlando and New York and LA are like that, yes. But there are thousands of miles of the rest of the country that are not like that suburban sprawl at all.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I should have clarified that the only places you are likely to find apartments like this are on the coasts or around major cities, where most of the country lives. The whole apartment complex thing isn't really a factor in the middle of the Great Plains, but it sure as hell is in, say, Florida. What I mean by "no countryside" is that you don't leave a city and drive through hill and dale until the next town; it's an unbroken sprawl of urban development in the areas in question.

The Orlando metro area for instance, is like 12 cities all mashed together into one huge urban area.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

The big difference in apartment styles in the US compared to everywhere else is that in the US, if you live in an apartment complex and you don't live in a dense urban environment like NYC, you live in a sprawling endless suburb. There isn't really a population of apartment dwellers in the countryside in most of the nation, it's just a never ending blanket of low rise apartment complexes and strip malls.

A Bakers Cousin posted:

Are you trying to compare the entire country to orlando?

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

Something like this is not atypical.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I should have clarified that the only places you are likely to find apartments like this are on the coasts or around major cities, where most of the country lives. The whole apartment complex thing isn't really a factor in the middle of the Great Plains, but it sure as hell is in, say, Florida. What I mean by "no countryside" is that you don't leave a city and drive through hill and dale until the next town; it's an unbroken sprawl of urban development in the areas in question.

The Orlando metro area for instance, is like 12 cities all mashed together into one huge urban area.

AreWeDrunkYet posted:

It's not uncommon across wide swathes of the country. New York and the cores of some other metropolises are the exception, and so is rural America. Most of the country lives in lower density cities or the suburbs of major metro areas, generally in tract housing or for those that can't afford it, these types of low density apartments. But since even the apartments are still somewhat too spread out to provide efficient community services, these types of complexes often provide things like pools to their residents.

e: Most of the US being an open rural expanse is true in the same sense that most of the US voted for Trump, it's only true if you ignore where the people are.

morallyobjected posted:

here let me help further by amending your original post:

ultrafilter posted:

The path running from Boston to DC is like that, but if you drive west at any point you pretty quickly get into rural areas.

Imagined posted:

Boy, sure loving all the funny pictures in this thread.

Sandwich Anarchist posted:

I should have clarified that the only places you are likely to find apartments like this are on the coasts or around major cities, where most of the country lives. The whole apartment complex thing isn't really a factor in the middle of the Great Plains, but it sure as hell is in, say, Florida. What I mean by "no countryside" is that you don't leave a city and drive through hill and dale until the next town; it's an unbroken sprawl of urban development in the areas in question.

The Orlando metro area for instance, is like 12 cities all mashed together into one huge urban area.