Memes

Everyone's dream =

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

"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.

I'll never understand why US suburbs like to utterly nuke any kind of nature around their houses and replace it with "lawns". Like, I'd rip that stuff out and at least plant some potats and shit immediately.

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".

This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)

Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

1. House needs to be in the mountains
2. Fuck lawns
3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE

Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.

I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 6 other friends.

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.

Well that's a shitty looking commune.

Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?

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

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.

I'm fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.

Houses are too big + the yards too small.

No thanks.

Who has seven friends?!?

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...

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

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.

This looks like hell

Why would you want a house like that. They are all the same characterless houses

Because it's 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?

My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn't get old.

Me and the wife befriended the neighbours during lockdown. Hung out all the time, went on several holidays together.

Still pals, was round at one of theirs for dinner the other day.

Lived even closer than this for years. Didn’t get old. Miss it. But had to move on from the communal garden space for the kids.

Friend 3 over there without even a driveway, we know who the charity case is lol

Suburbia may be a good place to shelter toddlers, but as soon as a child is more than about 6 years old, being trapped in a mcmansion on the edge of town seriously inhibits their growth and independence. They might be able to walk to a friend's house, if they're lucky enough to live somewhere with a sidewalk, but they're unlikely to be able to walk to school, or anywhere else for that matter. ...

... And it's more than just school, too. Kids have lots of sports and other activities, so [in better urbanist places] it's very common to see children walking or cycling while dressed in football gear (not [American] football) or hockey gear (not [ice] hockey), because they travel to all these activities by themselves.

In the US and Canada you have the stereotype of the suburban 'soccer mum', the mother who spends all of her time shuttling her kids around from school to activities to playdates and back. Because until a kid is about 16 years old and has their own driver's licence, they need to be driven around everywhere by their parents. And this is considered 'normal'.

— Jason Slaughter, 2022

Suburbian hell aside, noone prohibits you from befriending your neighbors.

Where does friend 3 park?

The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with was a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

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.