These people need to stay in California with their expensive houses. I could get 3500sq ft not nearly as ugly as that 5 minutes from where I live now for $400k.
Note to leftists who want to escape California: I most definitely live in Canada. You should move here. Cheap houses like this, great government, free healthcare. Don't believe me, the fact checker says this statement is mostly true. Why not move here, eh?
Well, at least that garage isn't pushed out to the front, and the living space actually looks larger than the garage space, which is more than I can say for most newer houses I've seen the past 20 years or so. I mean, what is it with the prominent, oversized garages, and living spaces that don't look much bigger than a large apartment or a townhouse?
Future archaeologists might conclude that humans of our time and culture actively worshipped cars and held them above everything else.
It's not the space itself, it's that it's prominent, pushed out in front, and the living space for, you know, humans, seems to be not much more than what the machinery gets ... it just seems bizarre and backwards from a design PoV, and I sure as heck wouldn't want a newer house designed like this (never mind all the modern corner-cutting of cookie-cutter, production-minded contractors ..)
Garages used to be modest things stuck in the back, and the size of the living space was emphasized. And if not in the back yard, it was pushed back from the house, not thrust forward or equal to.
If you want "stupid things to complain about", why are we complaining about a house in the first place? Except for the silly price (and that's location-based), I don't see much in the way wrong with it, ALL the fucking houses are being built more or less like that. Except usually with cheap-shit ugly-ass vinyl siding, which I hate more than the colour scheme on that fake brick shit. And I like the postage-stamp sized yards a lot less than the weird design of emphasizing storage space over living space.
That reminds me of when I was looking to buy my first house about 10 years ago. I checked out a new development and they were building on these tiny lots that were maybe 40 feet wide. I guess they were trying to stuff as much house on the street line as possible. It's just like you describe, the houses look like garages with doors on the side of them that's the front door. I'm glad I didn't get sucked in by the newness of them as I would have learned real quick I didn't like it. The house I ended up buying had about a 25% bigger lot and it still felt like you were sharing a back porch with the neighbor behind you.
All the more reason to get out of town I guess, these houses I speak of aren't even in an expensive part of the country yet they still build them like that to cut $10k-$20k off the cost
That's an ugly house, but I can't help but notice that a lot of the hatred for "McMansions" tends to come from urban leftists who seem to have a general hatred of all things suburban America.
I think those box houses they've started building all over Seattle are 1000x uglier than this, but you don't see nearly the same type of visceral hatred for them as you do for "McMansions"
These people need to stay in California with their expensive houses. I could get 3500sq ft not nearly as ugly as that 5 minutes from where I live now for $400k.
Note to leftists who want to escape California: I most definitely live in Canada. You should move here. Cheap houses like this, great government, free healthcare. Don't believe me, the fact checker says this statement is mostly true. Why not move here, eh?
Well, at least that garage isn't pushed out to the front, and the living space actually looks larger than the garage space, which is more than I can say for most newer houses I've seen the past 20 years or so. I mean, what is it with the prominent, oversized garages, and living spaces that don't look much bigger than a large apartment or a townhouse?
Future archaeologists might conclude that humans of our time and culture actively worshipped cars and held them above everything else.
What a dumb thing to be concerned about. God forbid someone have space for a car and a gas-powered toy or two.
Hell, most garages I see are just packed full of junk anyway. It's rare to see them used to actually hold vehicles.
It's not the space itself, it's that it's prominent, pushed out in front, and the living space for, you know, humans, seems to be not much more than what the machinery gets ... it just seems bizarre and backwards from a design PoV, and I sure as heck wouldn't want a newer house designed like this (never mind all the modern corner-cutting of cookie-cutter, production-minded contractors ..)
Garages used to be modest things stuck in the back, and the size of the living space was emphasized. And if not in the back yard, it was pushed back from the house, not thrust forward or equal to.
If you want "stupid things to complain about", why are we complaining about a house in the first place? Except for the silly price (and that's location-based), I don't see much in the way wrong with it, ALL the fucking houses are being built more or less like that. Except usually with cheap-shit ugly-ass vinyl siding, which I hate more than the colour scheme on that fake brick shit. And I like the postage-stamp sized yards a lot less than the weird design of emphasizing storage space over living space.
That reminds me of when I was looking to buy my first house about 10 years ago. I checked out a new development and they were building on these tiny lots that were maybe 40 feet wide. I guess they were trying to stuff as much house on the street line as possible. It's just like you describe, the houses look like garages with doors on the side of them that's the front door. I'm glad I didn't get sucked in by the newness of them as I would have learned real quick I didn't like it. The house I ended up buying had about a 25% bigger lot and it still felt like you were sharing a back porch with the neighbor behind you.
All the more reason to get out of town I guess, these houses I speak of aren't even in an expensive part of the country yet they still build them like that to cut $10k-$20k off the cost
2.75 million? That place would cost less than 500k in my neck of the woods.
What’s the catch?
That's an ugly house, but I can't help but notice that a lot of the hatred for "McMansions" tends to come from urban leftists who seem to have a general hatred of all things suburban America.
I think those box houses they've started building all over Seattle are 1000x uglier than this, but you don't see nearly the same type of visceral hatred for them as you do for "McMansions"