Heh. Many years ago I had the pleasure to be on a field trip, a lecturer in architecture and city planning walking his students through a suburbian district. Pointing out architectural atrocities. With a portable PA system.
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The other thing I’ve noticed about modern subdivision planning, is that the street maps almost always look like someone gave LSD to a two-year old and handed him a box of crayons. There’s a neighborhood that’s near me where what would be a two-block walk to school becomes a half-mile walk because of the “you can’t get there from here” principle that infests modern planning.
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We all died together with Kurt Cobain!
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That’s all I can contribute to that. XD
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Also decent for being a ham radio operator since most of the stuff is probably properly grounded too so less RFI.
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I must be a Bad Example, then, cuz I’m:
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Also, Kurt lives on through all of us!
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I do often feel like a weird mixture of Lithium and Come as You Are;
Come, doused in mud, soaked in bleach
As I want you to be
As a trend, as a friend
As an old enemy…
I like you, I’m not gonna crack
I kill you, I’m not gonna crack…
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Lithium really is my favorite song by them…
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Yeah. When I visit the in-laws, I marvel at the house. It’s got concrete walls 30cm thick with steel reinforcing, actual tile roof, lovely tile floors, double-pane glazing from the 70s. But there’s no way I could afford such a house. My siblings-in-law, who earn pretty much like I do, tax rate considered, live in tiny little garrets, or share apartments, except for the one who married a Croatian, and who lives in a nice house among the empty houses Germans rent during vacation time.
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“Walk to school”? What is this “walk”? All kids are supposed to be driven to school in a car and dropped off in the hellacious clusterfuck that is daily dropoff. My niece would love to walk to school (half a mile, maybe a little less), but it’s not allowed–she has to be dropped off. That’s the rule.
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wtf?
Oh, wait. Liability I bet.
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For what it’s worth, this scene played out in my head.
SCENE: BOOMER AND MILLENNIAL ENTER
BOOMER: Think about it! It’s a great home! My son had it built especially for us!
MILLENNIAL: snorts in derision Yeah, right. It’s a McMansion, the engineering is shoddy, and the wiring? No thanks. Besides, it’s in the middle of nowhere.
BOOMER: But it was supposed to be everyone’s dream! Why can’t you see it?
GEN XER enters from left
GEN XER: This is why I moved out, Dad. The place is a death trap. You were just enough of a sucker to buy it.
BOOMER: You are dead to me! Turns to MILLENNIAL And you! This is another thing you are killing off!
MILLENNIAL: Pfft. Whatever. Exits through the audience
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That’s probably going to happen eventually anyway, as property values in the city cores recover and outer suburbs become less popular they will eventually turn into far flung Banlieues.
OK:
But also:
And:
(sorry)
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Absolutely. Euroepan-style building is expensive. Thus owning a large house, especially anywhere near a city, is quite difficult. I live in a 600 square foot condo and I count myself very fortunate indeed.
It may be, by American standards, tiny, but between me and a late-March cold snap there is two feet of kiln-fired brick. 
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How can that be legal?
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Yes, this Boomer grew up in the San Fernando Valley–with tons of post-war housing of reasonable size. It’s infuriating to watch one of these homes get demolished and a giant, fucking monstrosity put up in it’s place. It destroys the look of the neighborhood, dwarfs the surrounding homes… It’s heartbreaking.
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