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.
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.
I literally cannot comprehend secured housing. Its like a dragon or unicorn. Sounds rad AF, but 10,000% unrealistic.
secured housing
I’m not familiar with this term. help?
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
Friend 3 runs the pub at the end of the block. Doesn’t even need a car.
Or a large wall with cannons and machine guns to keep out any trucks with flags on them.
Friend 3 over there without even a driveway, we know who the charity case is lol
I didn’t even notice, but that’s so weird. Buy a house like that and park your car out front?
parks on the lawn, 'merika!
That’s Kenny’s house
“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.
I have a small friend group and we go on vacations together all the time. There are about 6 of us then I bring my kids too. We go to beaches, cabins, amusement parks, you name it. It’s awesome. I wish we all lived on the same st too. I bet we could even save some money by cooking meals together more often.
I thought when I had kids I would be out of any kind of group like this but my friends are awesome. Occasionally they will do something and I’ll have to turn it down because it would be too hard but they always keep asking and we ask them too.
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.
At the end of the day it’s not the details of the pic but the concept conveyed. All the homies, within walking distance, with someone probably available to hang whenever.
Who has seven friends?!?
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.
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.
Yeah the lots should be reconfigured for better utilization. The backsets on the detached units could be reduced, and the buildings clustered to the right/back corner of the property. The Street could be replaced by a laneway on the property line next to the cluster of homes, freeing up the entire left/front for this common area, and garden/greenery etc
With houses no less.
I’m just happy someone else said it.
Six actually, you are one of the seven friends
I’m not social enough to live like this. I like my solitude; hence why I live out in the woods. I have the “option” of inviting friends over, or going to their house, but when I/we have had enough, we can all just leave and go back home and we’re not still looking at each other from across the road.
I was thinking more like a compound with out buildings, sheds and plants other than just fucking grass.
Grove Street. Home. At least it was before I fucked everything up.
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…
Or a Frankensteins monster to terrorize the rest of your friends.
Yeah when I bought my house they asked if I wanted a garage and I said I didn’t care because I’m not super into cars or anything but now I wish I had a garage to put a workshop in. My next house will have one for sure but the car is staying outside haha
yeah 3 is way too difficult to get materials to the shop
I don’t mind it being in the back instead of a garage, in fact I’d prefer it as it’s farther from the neighbours (less noise over to them), but none at all? deal breaker
Who has 7 friends?
Mythical beasts and unicorns
I’m fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.
My dawg, this is epic, I lived it. Granted, I haven’t kept up with those people for years, but they were my homies when I was a very young kid
I would kill to have my squad in close proximity like this. My friend group has been together since middle school, it would be a blast
Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.
Calm down Netanyahu
Friend 4 has the best line-of-sight for machine gun nest and sniper fire.
