i see your point and raise you: so checkmate all cheeky bullshit aside, i don't disagree with anything you said and have admitted my shit is skewed bc of stupid 80s movies. i also don't rly enjoy the big sprawling duplex look you'll find plaguing the surrounding areas of big cities - i enjoy a more rural aesthetic. the 1st and 3rd pic you posted look entirely fine to me
Lithuania (built when part of USSR), and Vienna fwiw what cities have big sprawling duplexes though? i guess best examples would be brownstone style aesthetics? most people love those
i guess i just don't know how that version is fundamentally different than the suburban hell we already have
Idk tbh - there prob aren’t any beyond the made up cities floating around in my head. I know some parts of The outer Charlotte area annoy me bc it’s just ugly apartments and warehouses every 10ft. North downtown Charleston is also similar to that, but my gripe is prob with dilapidated buildings and not multi unit housing
Will this make the overall price of housing go down but the price of single family detached rise? That’s what I’ll be buying in CA in a few years.
Uhh fuck Jennifer Rubin now and forever? She is a huge piece of shit, anti-progressive, and has NEVER apologized for the amount of war drum beating she and others like Tom did for the Iraq war.
yea they're both trash though Rubin has been talking a lot of shit about the insurrectionists, which is mildly redeeming
Mother's cousin lived in that Vienna one many years ago before she inherited the Hietzing flat; I visited it in 1977 when it was pretty new
There are trains connecting them so you can kinda easily get into the city/jobs vs sitting in bumper to bumper traffic
Probs, but also we got hella interests in the South China Sea so what do you expect with what our country is today. That and who gives a fuck that you recalled the embassador, not like Macron wouldn’t answer the call if Biden called
Sometimes the French flip out that the UK and the US are too closely aligned or whatever. But the very idea of being our closest ally disgusts them. It is pretty funny.
My heritage is eastern European Jew fleeing the Holocaust and I don’t give a fuck about England. I’m just cracking jokes breh
Nice! Now I can build a jenky ADU in my yard and move in while some fat cat renter keeps my head above water #NewsomFTW
After WW2, Truman and US wanted to support decolonization and Charles De Gaulle said he would align France with the Soviet Union if we did any such thing. Wonder how that worked out for France.
I mentioned we are in the process of buying a house in Berkeley CA but didn’t mention it’s because our current landlord has plans to tear down the bungalow we currently rent to build two patio homes. In speaking to him, he expects to get around $1M for each. I imagine this news speeds up his timeline.
My bigger concern is homeowners in desirable areas of CA are just going to build ADUs and use them as additional square footage or rent them out as airBnBs. Honestly, I’d consider doing it myself.
This follows a week of various European ambassadors to the US criticising the US. Not great. I guess we also know why the U.K. have been so muted the last weeks.
You’re no worse off under the first scenario and you’re creating downward forces on AirBnB prices in the second, so what’s the problem?
A lot of this in Queens NY. Entire neighborhoods in fact. Not as pretty as the British towns, but still not too bad.