Who has seven friends?!?
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.
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.
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
With houses no less.
“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.
The only problem I see here is the lack of fences, trees, and plants. And the size of the houses is a bit too big for my needs.
Slop.
That aside, I choose friend 3. The only one without a driveway. Though if I did have a garage, I could establish my workshop there, hm…
yeah 3 is way too difficult to get materials to the shop
I don’t mind it being in the back instead of a garage, in fact I’d prefer it as it’s farther from the neighbours (less noise over to them), but none at all? deal breaker
I want a place like this but I get a bunch of weird artists who visit and camp out for a while and I make them pancakes and they help me do chores.
My inspiration is Mattersville
I’m fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.
Hell. I don’t want a huge house. And where’s the commerce and culture?
Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.
Calm down Netanyahu
HFIL
I’ve seen people rag on the suburbia of it all but no one has questioned the premise. If the suburban housing was the premise, then it shouldn’t matter who the neighbors are and the length of time would be irrelevant: you just wouldn’t want to live in the suburbs.
The premise is implying something about the idea of living by friends is masking the inherent problems with the situation. And that mask would fall off after some time had passed. But, if you don’t like the suburbs as 90% of y’all felt compelled to make clear, why would that be suppressed and only resurface after time passes?
Why would living by friends turn into a nightmare scenario? If you can’t stand being neighbors with them, then I’d argue you guys weren’t really friends. Or you have novel ideas about how much you have to interact with neighbors.
Plus that big wide field where your kids are going to be snacked up by rocs.
Because it’s 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?
Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?
Make it yourself
Vietnamese food just isn’t the same unless it comes from a far to small kitchen, with some ancient vietnamese couple yelling at each other. Can really taste that passion.
Just make more friends?
Channel that energy. Become that fighting couple. Fry angry. Chop resentfully.
I call it “method cooking.”
It’s how I make amazing tomato sauce.
Well that’s a shitty looking commune.
McCommune
My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn’t get old.
This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.
(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)
I also really respect and like the finale, which is rare for a cartoon
YES I loved that show
