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The Oldest Man posted:blows me away every time that our warped housing market thinks thats a better living situation than a thousand square foot apartment It makes the individual responsible for maintenance of everything instead of shared facilities/walls/a roof that the apartment operator is responsible for
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It would be nice to not have to share walls just for the sound/privacy aspect. If there's a chance that the neighbor's crying baby or loud TV explosion sounds don't intrude into my space that would be pretty cool. Of course they could also just construct apartment buildings with adequate soundproofing and insulation but nah, let's just put houses 6 ft apart, that's efficient. Individual maintenance responsibility can a positive or negative depending on how good your apartment management is, I suppose.
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glad we can all upgrade to individualized micro-hovels
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There's nothing wrong with that house. Its really nice for $200,000.
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concrete apartments are in my experience relatively quiet but now they build those wood frame monstrosities
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I rented a condo in a condo building instead of an apartment complex so I could get the extra thick walls
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Salt Fish posted:There's nothing wrong with that house. Its really nice for $200,000. They wouldn't build that for $200k
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The Oldest Man posted:blows me away every time that our warped housing market thinks thats a better living situation than a thousand square foot apartment a thousand square foot apartment is huge. anything decent that size in Minneapolis is like 3 grand a month
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ProperGanderPusher posted:https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1512533722259763203?s=46 I looked at my hometown, the closest to $65k were two properties, one at $95k and one at $100k. Both were just land, no home.
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it's a house micheal, how much could it cost? $65k?
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Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in     Sign me the gently caress up
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The Oldest Man posted:Who wouldn't want windows from three different neighbors all looking into your bedroom from six feet away how are there no curtains on any of it
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err posted:how are there no curtains on any of it Didn't you see that article from a few days ago? Rich people don't put drapes in their windows anymore.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in the empty pill bottles in the last pic are a nice touch
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Those were the post-cleanup pictures!
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these are the kinds of houses and backyards I dont understand. I wouldnt want to set foot outside let alone sit in my hot tub
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mistermojo posted:these are the kinds of houses and backyards I dont understand. I wouldnt want to set foot outside let alone sit in my hot tub you just gotta have faith your American neighbor isnt watching ur family with x12 binoculars ready to call the police at a moment's notice
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Hot tubs are for fuckin', everyone knows that. That's just a swingers neighborhood.
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mistermojo posted:these are the kinds of houses and backyards I dont understand. I wouldnt want to set foot outside let alone sit in my hot tub Actually has a bunch of mature trees compared to what you normally see in that type of neighborhood so probably reasonably private for a good chunk of the year when those limbs aren't bare.
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we had like a big communal backyard growing up. all the kids would just kind of roam to whatever house's particular corner of it was where bugs or pinecones or whatever fort was happening that day
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Get ya a 6th generation McMansion today!   
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I mean this is basically that Twitter poster’s account gimmick. He claims to live in a yurt on federal land and thinks everyone’s spoiled and lazy for not living the free hobo life like him. He makes most of his money on his substack where he shares vans and boats and asks why young men these days lack the gumption to fix them up and live in them.
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Gunshow Poophole posted:we had like a big communal backyard growing up. all the kids would just kind of roam to whatever house's particular corner of it was where bugs or pinecones or whatever fort was happening that day I have a pet theory that the reason why kids aren't allowed to roam anymore (and the underlying motivation for the various proximate reasons like stranger danger) is that childhood roaming provided a community context separate from the alienated adult life that people entered. The sense of "wrongness" of alienated adult relations only comes if you have experienced something else. Alienation must be a totalizing process or people will rebel against it. So if you want people to be perfectly alienated consumers, you have to rob them of any opportunity to have an experience of group or community like that.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in I like how the dutch angles help signify the viewer's descent into insanity.
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The Oldest Man posted:I have a pet theory that the reason why kids aren't allowed to roam anymore (and the underlying motivation for the various proximate reasons like stranger danger) is that childhood roaming provided a community context separate from the alienated adult life that people entered. The sense of "wrongness" of alienated adult relations only comes if you have experienced something else. Alienation must be a totalizing process or people will rebel against it. So if you want people to be perfectly alienated consumers, you have to rob them of any opportunity to have an experience of group or community like that. That’s an interesting theory but I think the simpler and more likely explanation is that it’s our generation reacting to the way we were raised by going hard in the opposite direction In addition to that everything is codified these days and if anything ever happens it immediately goes through the formal legal process so there’s just a lot more liability than there used to be
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HashtagGirlboss posted:That’s an interesting theory but I think the simpler and more likely explanation is that it’s our generation reacting to the way we were raised by going hard in the opposite direction That would only track if it wasn't a linear downward trend in the range kids go from their houses unaccompanied, percentage of kids walking to school alone, etc. across many, many years starting at least as long ago as the 70s
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The Oldest Man posted:I have a pet theory that the reason why kids aren't allowed to roam anymore (and the underlying motivation for the various proximate reasons like stranger danger) is that childhood roaming provided a community context separate from the alienated adult life that people entered. The sense of "wrongness" of alienated adult relations only comes if you have experienced something else. Alienation must be a totalizing process or people will rebel against it. So if you want people to be perfectly alienated consumers, you have to rob them of any opportunity to have an experience of group or community like that. It’s been very revealing moving to the burbs and meeting so many people who are utterly terrified of intruders and thieves despite the fact nothing ever happens in our part of town. Everyone has those home security system thingies that cost like fifty to a hundred bucks a month. I ask them if all that money they’re dumping into the home security system is worth it, and they tell me it’s mostly to protect their daughters and wives from serial killers and rapists. Everyone has plenty of guns on top of that and constantly shares fantasies of blasting limbs off of trespassers and nailing them to trees and other chud tough guy poo poo like that. It would be funny if it didn’t make everyone paranoid and adversarial towards each other until each side can prove they aren’t a threat (e.g. be white).
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ProperGanderPusher posted:It’s been very revealing moving to the burbs and meeting so many people who are utterly terrified of intruders and thieves despite the fact nothing ever happens in our part of town. Everyone has those home security system thingies that cost like fifty to a hundred bucks a month. I ask them if all that money they’re dumping into the home security system is worth it, and they tell me it’s mostly to protect their daughters and wives from serial killers and rapists. Everyone has plenty of guns on top of that and constantly shares fantasies of blasting limbs off of trespassers and nailing them to trees and other chud tough guy poo poo like that. we live in the low-rent area of our very wealthy county (average home price is probably 200-250k) and the only time we really lock our doors is when we go out of town. we go over to the wealthier areas for the nicer toddler playgrounds, and there was a dude open carrying yesterday. first time I’ve ever seen that in 30 years of living in the area.
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meanolmrcloud posted:we live in the low-rent area of our very wealthy county (average home price is probably 200-250k) and the only time we really lock our doors is when we go out of town. we go over to the wealthier areas for the nicer toddler playgrounds, and there was a dude open carrying yesterday. first time I’ve ever seen that in 30 years of living in the area. Nextdoor on that side of the county must be truly magical.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in Looks like stills from the Prodigy - Smack My Bitch Up music video
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in inside looked actually ok
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:Here's a nice place for only $67K in the dead coal mining town I grew up in looks perfect as my next airbnb rental. just needs some paint and some new carpet.
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spacemang_spliff posted:I looked at my hometown, the closest to $65k were two properties, one at $95k and one at $100k. I was surprised, I was actually able to find a place for 75k back home - 6000 sq ft. of bare dirt, a stray cinder block and a no trespassing sign. Neighbors are a salvage yard and a boarded up tire shop. This is one of the poorest states in the country and I'd likely take a >50% paycut to move back.
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Hauki posted:This is one of the poorest states in the country and I'd likely take a >50% paycut to move back. and this is the actual lesson here - if you can't make it in New York / Los Angeles /St Louis, gently caress you, you deserve garbage, go wallow in the toilet There is no talk of improving the places like you and I came from. That was left behind in 2016 and no one even pretends to care about that. Just go back to the sewer if you can't make it in The Real World.
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:and this is the actual lesson here - if you can't make it in New York / Los Angeles /St Louis, gently caress you, you deserve garbage, go wallow in the toilet Ah yes, the three great American metropolises. NY, LA, and St. Louis
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Pittsburgh Fentanyl Cloud posted:and this is the actual lesson here - if you can't make it in New York / Los Angeles /St Louis, gently caress you, you deserve garbage, go wallow in the toilet that dumb hillbilly elegy or book a few years ago was popular because it fed into that superiority complex. and it’s not new. it’s just getting worse
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euphronius posted:inside looked actually ok outside looks fine too. OP is a coward for not gentrifying his dead home town
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House can never go down if you dont have a house, buy the biggest most expensivest the bank will let you get away with immediately. Do not wait. Youre leaving money on the table bro. If you have a house, equity out refinance and buy another house. Buy two houses, buy 10 on 3% down loans. It dont matter. You can always just sell a few for a 10% profit if you need cash. Being the most irresponsible, overleveraged consumer possible has paid off for countless people. Either get on the boat or get run over.
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professional staging? who needs it
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