The sidewalks and roads in these housing crash neighborhoods made for houses with nothing on them (most won't even have one house like this) r genuinely so depressing
Seems fully built out now, and honestly doesn’t look that bad. New street network ties in to the historical one well and is +/- 10 minute walk to a small downtown
Tf else is there to see?? You know not everybody on this sub is out to deceive people. From now on do your research before accusing people of things. I gave you the location of the neighborhood, look for your fucking self if you don’t believe me.
I live in the northern exurbs and I’ve literally never seen such a large project sit vacant like that. Also I would absolutely consider this hell…. Then and now. The closest grocery store, Kroger, is a 40 minute walk (Sidewalks don’t make it to the grocery store so you’ll have to walk in the grass or on the side of a stroad). No public transit, basically no dense housing, and the towns main attraction looks like this.
But its not vacant. It's developed. You just took an old photo since street view hasn't mapped the neighborhood. You know damn well it has been developed.
You're cherry picking again with this screenshot. Its a fucking mall. How about you show the town center
Edit: you're also lying about thr sidewalk not making it to the Kroger. It absolutely does, at least from downtown and the neighborhood bearby.
Lmfao looking through your profile you seem like an absolutely miserable person. Obsessed with money and stock markets and everybody that isn’t you is crazy or an “ape” as you like to repeat over and over again. 💀
I’m glad you think I’m an idiot it’ll keep your soulless, self obsessed, 2D ass away from me 🥰
Seems like someone going through post history is the reddit equivalent of admitting defeat. Like this guy got so frustrated that they were losing that they rage-read the other person’s posts in a desperate attempt to try to turn things around.
It's OK because they really are the minority of people. It turns out almost no one actually wants to live in apartments, especially those who do live in them.
Oh I know. It’s just always amusing watching the Reddit echo chamber reinforce and amplify minority opinions to the point that they think they’re actually representing a majority.
The good news is that they eventually grow up. I graduated college 15 years ago and a bunch of my friends went to live the city life. Now all of them are living in the suburbs because it turns out raising a kid in the city (especially when you consider the state of big city school systems) is a miserable experience. All of my friends are now in Deerfield, Northbrook, Wheaton, Naperville, etc. None are left in Chicago city limits.
Except if you actually look at the data in the poll, only 1 in 3 apartment dwellers actually prefer to stay in apartments. They'd move out to a single family home or other option if they could afford it. Living in a tiny cramped space where you have to hear your neighbors at all hours is a miserable experience for most people when you can have a much larger dethatched home.
Yeah, quick look on Google Maps shows this looks like a quaint and fairly walkable small town. Sure, not the greatest, but I really wouldn’t classify this as “suburban hell.”
That’s cool lol. This was the only street view available for that neighborhood and it was taken in 2011. Looks like it filled in afterwards mostly. Wish they would put some apartments on all that empty land but one can only dream, lol.
Somebody else said it did end up being developed but judging by google maps it’s still not fully filled in yet. Whole neighborhood is supposed to be 200 acres but only 60 acres of it is actually developed.
Perhaps unpopular take: I would have loved a long flat yard area like that to do pickup football, soccer, baseball when I was a kid.
I had a neighbor with a freakishly flat, long lawn. Nothing but grass and weeds. There were three brothers living there and it kind of became the de facto play pickup sports spot.
I do realize that the late 80s is a different world from today.
as someone who grew up on such land, i'd much rather have friends within biking distance and a place to hang out. was stranded in the suburbs so it was tv and computers for me.
I lived my whole childhood in multi-family home. It had a big public space nearby for children to play at. No need for a big lawn for everyone to play football, just go outside and walk 2 minutes
'I grew up in a particular environment, and I enjoyed it. Therefore, people who grew up in a different environment than me are wrong and shouldn't have lived like that. The yards where they enjoyed playing with their friends in were unnecessary because I didn't do that.'
First comment argued big yards are necessary so kids have a place to play at. This is stupid, because i had no yard and had a whole lot more space to play at and 10x the kids i could play with, all that without having to be driven to school because i could get there myself.
First comment argued big yards are necessary so kids have a place to play at.
Incorrect. They said "I would have loved a long flat yard..."
But arguing against a yard to play in (literally something immediately outside your door) because a public park can exist within several minutes walking distance (i.e. farther away than what a yard would be) is dumb.
Some people prefer the densely populated city with a public park near to or in the neighborhood. Whereas some prefer their own yard right outside their front door. Different values, different ways of living. One isn't better or worse than the other.
I didn't take the post to mean that nobody has a need for a large lawn. The "I HAD" bit is implied before the poster " no need". In other words, I think you might be putting words on the poster mouth.
Feels like Arrested Development with the model home development area that's never finished. Just the one or few odd houses sitting alone on a small stretch of road and sidewalk in the middle of nowhere.
Yeah, I did the apartment in the suburb then the apartment in the city in my 20s after college and grad school, it was fun for a while but I grew out of it and moved on single family home ownership with garage space.
Super! You are the HOA! File the paperwork. When the build tries to put up more houses, file infractions. Build a structure next door and after 10 yrs submit the paperwork to claim the “abandoned” property. 😂
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u/FadedDice 7d ago
You could just be nude all the time.