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[–] Xerxos@lemmy.ml 46 points 6 days ago (3 children)

"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.

[–] BoomBoomBoomBoom@lemmings.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] n7gifmdn@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm not seeing an A/C unit on this thing anywhere.

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[–] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 29 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] cdf12345@lemmy.zip 22 points 6 days ago

Calm down Netanyahu

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[–] PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

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[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 15 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

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

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 14 points 6 days ago (3 children)

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...

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[–] KiloGex@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] Bane_Killgrind@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)

secured housing

I'm not familiar with this term. help?

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think they mean not renting? Or maybe living in a defensible space??

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Right. "Comprehend" is the wrong word, it should have been they can't imagine ever having secured housing.

[–] mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I know what it means, but not 100% sure it applies here

it means stable & affordable. like your landlord can't kick you out, and your rent won't be jacked up unreasonably

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[–] stinky@redlemmy.com 4 points 5 days ago

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

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Friend 3 runs the pub at the end of the block. Doesn't even need a car.

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Or a large wall with cannons and machine guns to keep out any trucks with flags on them.

[–] swelter_spark@reddthat.com 7 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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".

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

No one outside of high school has six friends.

Me, a guy with maybe a dozen friends I hang out with on a weekly basis, whistling past the graveyard of loneliness

There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.

One trick to living in a cul de sac with six of your closest friends is to meet your neighbors and become friends with them. I'll say that COVID really helped me with this, personally, because during the peak I was just out on the driveway or walking the local trails trying not to go stir crazy and... so was everyone else. Pretty soon we were doing impromptu parties on the driveway and yoga on the lawn and whatever else we could to avoid the isolation of a pandemic.

But you don't need a killer virus to wave to your neighbors, say hi, and strike up a conversation. And there's a compounding effect. When two people are out talking, you're likely to pick up a third. When five people are hanging out at the end of a day, it can quickly become ten or more.

If it's an instinctual response to wish for this kind of thing, it shouldn't be hard to imagine people gravitating towards these relationships IRL.

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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 7 points 6 days ago (4 children)

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

[–] FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

That’s Kenny’s house

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[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 4 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] TeoTwawki@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

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.

[–] HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Houses are too big + the yards too small.

No thanks.

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