Oh so a NYC apartment? LOL
Stop buying big trucks, assholes!Seems inefficient. Why not just build apartments?
the american dream brooooother. also NIMBYs
Well for one thing “owning” an apartment is a borderline scam. You still have to rely on the actual building owner to take care of it and I swear to god no exaggeration 85% of every landlord that owns apartments is a slumlord. Doesn’t give a fuck about any of it and will raise “maintenance” fees or whatever year over year until its impossible to afford.
And you get neighbors that are fucking nasty most of the time.
Now exceptions to the rule are real nice, real expensive apartments. That you usually only lease. Most of the time if an average big apartment building is selling a individual apartments its because something is wrong.
At least with these you own them and no one can spend all day thinking of a bigger number for you to lose it.
Well for one thing “owning” an apartment is a borderline scam. You still have to rely on the actual building owner to take care of it
You yanks are doing it wrong. There hasn’t been a building owner at any apartment building I’ve lived in. The owners of each apartment, collectively, own the building. Maintenance fees? You agree upon those with the rest of the owners. Repairs need to be done? Shared decision. Someone is appointed to be the manager of the building, but that job just entails sending invoices and making sure everything is done properly, it comes with zero decision-making power generally.
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Not hsving to share a wall with your neighbor is probably one of the selling points of that design.
That’s why I bought a farm. I wanted to get AWAY from people, not closer.
Those walls aren’t going to be stopping sound any better than an apartment wall.
Okay bro can you explain how sound travels in your universe?
Through solid objects and the air.
These things look cheaply built which means the windows and walls are not soundproofed or anything like that and you will hear everything going on outside because every wall is an exterior wall. An apartment trades the barely effective 6 foot air gap for slightly heavier construction which reduces sound between apartments.
Source: Have lived in cheaply built homes and apartments. Currently live in a decent apartment where the sound doesn’t bleed over from adjoining apartments but does come right in through the windows.
As opposed to a cheaply built apartment? Why are they soundproofing the apartment walls and not the housing walls? Do you guys know we have building codes and standards?
Yea but there’s 2 of them and they’re air gapped.
Here, for you too! this is how sound travels in our universe.
Yes, and the materials and build quality matters in my universe.
Those tiny homes are like 8 foot apart with no landscaping which makes the gap far less effective than your example.
Nothing says build quality and material quality quite like “affordable housing”. It must be nice being in a universe where everyone can afford quality and modern housing!
That’s what happens when you build out of cardboard. Somehow that has never been a problem in all the concrete apartments I have lived in my country in Europe.
You know how dumb you sound calling sheet wood cardboard? Would you let me hit you with a piece of the “card board” and then we can discuss the difference?
Did I not reply with hyperbole? Do you think that’s necessary??
Nah, you were just being a dick.
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Do we get to hit you back with a brick? :D
No because I can tell you the difference between a brick and a stone, I’m just asking if I can hit you with a couple pieces of cardboard. Or maybe just interest you in some basic engineering?
We also use sheet wood in Europe frequently, so we’re very familiar with it. We just don’t use it for our outer walls and load bearing parts of a structure.
We also don’t use it for load bearing parts of the structure? Thats the wood studs. wood siding helps with lateral forces and makes the load bearing parts rigid. I’ve been seeing the cardboard joke for 30 years now and im stuck in a house with actual cardboard siding, because again sheathing isn’t load bearing. Its crazy that americans built $20,000 mobile homes and housed all the rural poor in them, its crazy they had cardboard walls. but again this was all 30+ years ago, we build things better now, ya’ll can retire the joke, the only people living in cardboard houses are like me, poor and destitute with no other options.
It was obviously hyperbole. When it comes to soundproofing, sheet wood is about as effective as cardboard, though.
Right, but you’re forgetting siding --> air gap—>sheetwood----> studbay with foam or glass----> drywall. Thats 4 layers of material to absob soundwaves and displace them. So again it just is a silly joke, its older than you are, find some better material. As i originally stated saying that makes you sound like an ignorant asshole. We also will do offset studbays to increase the material and differentiate the sound path. The engineering is cool. If you’d stop acting like a smart ass you might find it interesting.
It wasnt even hyperbole, I live in a house made of actual cardboard siding. Like you’re just making fun of poor people and being ignorant, unoriginal, and not funny. I’m certain you have enough wit to come up with an original joke that makes sense.
Read the user names, idiot.
Probably even worse; cardboard (like used for boxes) has a lot of air pockets in it, whereas a ‘solid’ wooden board probably adds resonance.
I see there are still no signs of intelligent life in the good ol’ US of A.
God help you my child may you find grass to touch.
6,500 comments in a year dude jesus fucking christ get a life!
Not even sure how to respond to this one, are you all just one person? The EU old joke enforcement division? Whats going on with you buddy? give me something to go on.
I was thinking the same thing, like these are just inefficient townhouses.
I don’t think I could ever bring myself buy a home with shared walls again(condo or townhouse). I’d have no problem renting but there is too much risk in owning something you don’t have full control of
Or even proper rowhomes with a concrete firewall between them. Looks like everyone would get an extra 6ft (3m) of floor width.
Young ppl love that they get any home at all. It’s nobody’s preference.
Americans will do anything but build terraces.
Tiny homes are soooo stupid
“Let’s take all the worst parts of appartments and suberbs, and put them together! It’ll be adorable!”This is the thinking that got us pugs people. Pugs!
It’s not a good impulse.Young people “love” them because it’s a house they can afford. They’d “love” a regular house if they could afford one.
Who the fucks “love” to live in a cabinet made of wood with pale colors
people who are experiencing housing insecurity for decades?
That is a a correct narrative of course and I would most def understand how such places will benefit those folk with home insecurities, to fux an ongoing issues.
but saying “young people” love those of shitshow cabinets is just forcing a wrong narrative.
Real estate market is a fucking capitlist bubble that in reality should never allowed to exist
The ongoing issue of… not building enough housing for different income brackets and lifestyles? I love my lil shoebox. I need more yard than those people but its a good amount of house for a bachelor.
I have a house built in the 50’s that does indeed dwarf those…whatever the fuck they are. It was built as a 2 bed 1 bath, a wall has been knocked through to make one of the bedrooms into part of the main room…It’s maybe 700 square feet? The issues are, it’s badly laid out and it’s full of my ancestors’ shit. Also it’s badly oriented in a bad location.
I would be fine if the building was smaller, if it was designed by someone who’s head isn’t full of lead. If I do go about building my own home, it’s going to be smaller than this one. And the bedroom will have one dresser in it, not four. And I’ll have one living room with one couch in it, not two. And I won’t bother with a 6-place dining room table.
Texas is experiencing an influx of tech workers from India. These little houses are a major upgrade from conditions most of them are used to back home.
Is that a garbage truck ?
lol if you’re the type of douchenozzle who has to buy a truck that’s as big as a tiny home, then parking is going to be an issue anywhere you go
less than zero sympathy
I still feel for their neighbours, and to some degree trucks being fielded as the pinnacle of masculinity has turned a lot of fragile men into victims but thats a little less salient.
Victims of their own insecurity and financial stupidity perhaps.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Insecurity is applied through marketing and social pressure, financial stupidity is a failure of schooling.
Im not saying they’re great people and you should love them, just trying to live up to my name.
That place seems to be still under construction. I bet that truck belongs to one of the people working there.
Simultaneously under construction based on the silt fencing and ancient based on the warped siding 🤔
Oscillating rapidly between “holy fuck is this what we’re being reduced to?” And “we really need more shit like this”
We’re not being reduced to this, this is the missing stepping stone to getting young people on the housing ladder. Ideally these are affordable with a single income, when you get married and are ready for kids you’d sell your 1-2 of these and buy a house. This is a reasonable alternative to a landlord. We really need more shit like this. Unfortunately americans are taken by the American dream, dunno how that happened, but this is the illusion of their white picket fence they long for, its also a good transition to that white picket fence.
“Tiny homes” sounds much nicer than “Trailer park”, no?
So those are some of the skinny houses I’ve seen around here, as well as on Open Street Map.
People love them??!!! WTF! When I was a kid in rural South America we would pitty people who’s house was not solid brick and had side walk. “Hay pobrecitos”.
That frame of mind as my “shades” that I see the world thru tell me that this is wrong. Micro houses should be for anyone who really truly wants one… For people in the middle of nowhere that need some sleep tonight. For the homeless who lost a job or got an expensive disease. ETC. Not for regular people in the city with good jobs.
Yeah, but it’s better than being unable to own a house for a lot of people. It’s absolutely not for me, I’m far more inclined towards a townhouse if possible, but I’m an engineer who wants to live in a more urban area.
Houses have gotten ludicrously expensive compared to what people can afford in America. This is partly because housing is seen as an investment and so any policy that reduces housing cost will take a good chunk out of the wealth of a large portion of the population.
But yeah the talks of extending home loans past 30 years is just egregious
Housing as an investment is a problem. But so is having kids. Each kid needs a house until we die. So at least one extra house. When we die they get the other but then they’ll have the same problem… Kids… And where to house them.
I think that might be the most American photographer ever taken.
What is the point in building teeny tiny homes if they’re going to be placed six feet apart and have no private space. The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff. This feels like an American visited Europe and completely failed grasp the point.
The whole point of a small compact house is it leaves space over for communal stuff.
What? The whole point is saving money, and smaller land is cheaper…
You know, we could make them even cheaper by cramming them so close they share walls and then stacking them on top of each other. And because they’re all together, we can call them apartments.
If that is so, what is the point of all that unusable wasted space around thise buildings, other than law requiring it for some randomreasons?
Without that, those buildings could either have high quality outside space that could be used for gardening or a terrace or the area could be reduced.
The point is for the developer to capitalize on the hype and fomo. Yes, most likely just enough space to meet property setbacks and utility easement requirements.
They squeeze the most “houses” in the lot as they can.
If they are in Texas then it’s 43C outside and 95% humidity, so you don’t go outside for anything if you don’t have to.
Also these are just apartments that are actually apart. So, basically just really inefficient apartments.
Gardening? Do you know the concept?
You know full well the only garden allowed by any HOA here is a lawn.
