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minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·8 hours agoDrive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes. I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry. Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·3 hours agoIn my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoThat’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·3 hours agoI hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 hours agoReminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·3 hours agoThat was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·4 hours agothat has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now
Kind of true also for housing.
Drive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes.
I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry.
Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
In my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
That’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
I hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
Reminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
That was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
that has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now