• billwashere@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    Yeah had a neighbor that would just pop in all the time. It was cool until it wasn’t. We moved and barely speak now. I think I know one person in my new neighborhood and it’s very much just an acquaintance.

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    2 hours ago

    if you can’t be responsible and respectful with SIX neighbors then you don’t deserve the privilege of owning property.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    No one outside of high school has six friends.

    No one makes friends with six random neighbors. And certainly they don’t all consider each other friends.

    There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.

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      11 hours ago

      No one outside of high school has six friends.

      Me, a guy with maybe a dozen friends I hang out with on a weekly basis, whistling past the graveyard of loneliness

      There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.

      One trick to living in a cul de sac with six of your closest friends is to meet your neighbors and become friends with them. I’ll say that COVID really helped me with this, personally, because during the peak I was just out on the driveway or walking the local trails trying not to go stir crazy and… so was everyone else. Pretty soon we were doing impromptu parties on the driveway and yoga on the lawn and whatever else we could to avoid the isolation of a pandemic.

      But you don’t need a killer virus to wave to your neighbors, say hi, and strike up a conversation. And there’s a compounding effect. When two people are out talking, you’re likely to pick up a third. When five people are hanging out at the end of a day, it can quickly become ten or more.

      If it’s an instinctual response to wish for this kind of thing, it shouldn’t be hard to imagine people gravitating towards these relationships IRL.

  • TeoTwawki@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I suddenly remember all those 80s and 90s sitcoms where the friends live right nearby and wall right into each others homes without knocking and just start talking without any greetings. This picture is just as unrealistic.

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    12 hours ago

    It looks like a hell to me. No fences for the dogs and other pets. No hegges for privacy Big grass a lit of work at least once a onth.

    An ‘enfer c’est les autres’ kinda place.

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    “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.

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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    23 hours ago

    I literally cannot comprehend secured housing. Its like a dragon or unicorn. Sounds rad AF, but 10,000% unrealistic.

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        13 hours ago

        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

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          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!

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    22 hours ago

    My aunt and her family lived in a place like this. It was such a weird vibe. We never walked or rode our bikes anywhere, we just played in the yard.

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    I consider the ideal distance for friends and family to be 1hr walk/5-10 min drive.

    Except for my youngest sister. For her, an Emirates gold flyer program.

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    I’d be so into this if there was something we could all walk to at the end of the block. Like a main st or something

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      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.

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        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.

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          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