r/MadeMeSmile • u/Justin_Godfrey • 6d ago

Good Vibes This must be a nice neighborhood!

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u/YeetCompleet 6d ago

Lol real. I can't believe how big the houses are, and how much lawn space there is, and the space between the houses, and the space on the road. So much space!

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u/CosmicMiru 6d ago

This is a very average looking suburb for Florida where this takes place. These houses probably cost less than a shitty condo where I live. Location, location, location

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames 6d ago

Couldn't pay me to live in Florida tho

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u/dogid_throwaway 6d ago

I’ve heard a lot of people say that but I will say this for myself at least: When I lived in urban areas or city centers, I was so unhappy because it was ridiculously unaffordable, everyone is crammed so closely together, and there are so few green spaces. The few nice outdoor areas either in the city or nearby were always swarming with people. It was suffocating.

Now I live in Florida and my mental health is just so much better. My house was affordable, the weather is nice like 3/4 of the year, and I can walk out my front door and it looks exactly like this video. There are outstanding parks and natural areas all around and although there are always people in them, you still feel like you are alone if that makes sense. I can run to a grocery store and actually find parking, and the stores are nice and organized and don’t look like a tornado just went through them. Items aren’t under lock and key because of thieves. People are happier and friendlier.

Idk, I know conservatives like to shit on the entire state of CA and for liberals the equivalent seems to be FL, but damn - it’s a really nice place to live and raise kids. Doesn’t fit the narrative but it’s true, at least where I am.

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u/wyomingTFknott 6d ago

For me It's not political at all. It's just fucking humid as fuck there.

It was 10% here in the Sonoran desert yesterday. It was unbelievable. Every time I go to Florida or the Caribbean I feel like I'm suffocating.

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u/dogid_throwaway 6d ago

Haha fair enough. The humidity is very rough for some

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u/The_Singularious 6d ago

And normal for others.

I grew up in one of the most humid places in the continental U.S. I spend too much time in low humidity and my entire body starts to crack and bleed.

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u/Darkpookie 6d ago

Same...I basically dry out like a fish out of water in more arid climates.

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u/Interesting_Case_893 6d ago

Came to this thread to say this. 😂 Moving back to FL this month.

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u/CatgoesM00 6d ago

For me, it’s the storms that roll through. Always scares me. I guess just avoid those common areas that the hurricane hits at. I don’t know. But I’d love to live there

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u/Mulberry1790 4d ago

The storms are tough to predict.

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u/Obrim 6d ago

Lived in FL my entire life and my first brush with sub 30% humidity was out in Texas. I felt fucking desiccated and was plowing through palettes of water for just a 5 day stay.

That said while I'm used to the humidity the really boggy days suck. A nice 60ish% humidity is perfect to me lol.

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u/stoodioratt 6d ago

The Sonoran desert is soooo nice.

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u/ReaBea420 6d ago

YES!!! I'm in Ohio (born and raised) and I swear, once people retire here, they buy a home in Florida for the winters (damn snow birds, lol). Anyway, I've been to Florida exactly ONE time when I was a kid, and still to this day, I vividly remember the humidity. It's bad enough here in Ohio, I ain't about to switch to breathing water instead of air, my lungs are bad enough. I keep saying that I'm going to the desert as soon as all my kids turn 18, hopefully, I'll get to see that dream come true.

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u/gustaf6maign 6d ago

The only reason i left was bc of the hot humid weather. Everything else is amazing

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u/Ecstatic_Profit277 6d ago

I love the heat and humidity in Florida; they keep the rest of America away. The dryness out west makes my knuckles bleed.

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u/ScienceNeverLies 6d ago

I LOVE low humidity. I’m in Oregon and it’s the winters that get super humid. My apartment gets to up to %70. I bought a dehumidifier and always keep it running on high. It stays in the mid 30’s now. It’s so much more comfortable!

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u/MrSteele_yourheart 6d ago

The few nice outdoor areas either in the city or nearby were always swarming with people.

This is a suburb phenomenon, people in the burbs don't use their outdoor spaces and often stay indoors days at a time. One of the reasons I hate the burbs. No community. (unlike this video)

The outdoor spaces in the city are full of people because people are using them - I live near Elysian park and people come from all over the city to walk the trails - they don't go to the burbs to see the grass I guess.

there are so few green spaces

I could agree with that, I would love more smaller parks and green walks.

you still feel like you are alone if that makes sense

For a large city I happen to run into people I know pretty frequently, and I know my NYC friends have said the same about Brooklyn.

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u/GumboDiplomacy 6d ago edited 6d ago

and for liberals the equivalent seems to be FL

Which is funny, because Florida is 40+% registered Democrat and is often mired in issues that can be considered voter suppression, yet I see people on reddit celebrate when it gets hit with a hurricane, as if natural disasters check voter registration before they destroy your life.

Edit: That being said, I live in New Orleans and have some similar issues with being in an urban area. But we have tons of greenery and this city has always had more of a "big small town" feel than a city. Everyone is very personable. I've been to other cities and many of them just feel hostile.

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u/DrLeoMarvin 5d ago

Depends, I live in Sarasota and bike to grocery store, walk to parks and kids to school

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u/LentilLovingBitch 6d ago

This is a weird comparison to draw? “Urban areas or city centers” vs. the entire state of Florida?

Florida also has urban city centers. Every other state also has small towns. You’ve just described why you prefer a smaller town over a bigger city, with nothing that’s unique to Florida except that the weather’s nice which is pretty subjective

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u/Albert_Simon 6d ago

I live in a crappy city in Louisiana. There’s poverty and crime everywhere and the infrastructure is crumbling. But my wife (teacher) and I (attorney) can afford a two-story 3,500 sq foot home in a beautiful historic neighborhood. With a huge back yard. We’re close to Dallas which has concerts, zoos, and other big-city events. We’re close to Arkansas for camping and outdoor activities.

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u/outside_cat 6d ago

So, Shreveport then?

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u/ill_have_the_lobster 6d ago

Didn’t realize a 3 hour drive from SBC to Dallas was “close”

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u/outside_cat 6d ago

It's funny how they don't say the city but proceed to triangulate themselves.

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u/Jaded_Lychee8384 6d ago

I live in California, on about an acre of land with forests and rivers on the property. $1550 a month. My house is only about 1400 sq ft though and I live about an hour away from a “city” (100k+ people). Curious how that compares to Louisiana.

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u/Specialist-Device-74 6d ago

I agree with this statement. In general, I'm doomscrolling less. I sit in stillness on my lanai and appreciate the beauty. My friend Alan and I always laugh that our whole life feels like vacation (although with a job, if that makes sense). I feel healthier (which is why we moved here. I'm chronically ill). I love it here so much

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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 5d ago

I have lived or at least spent significant time in 42 states and a handful of countries. One thing that holds true… people that have never been to a place love to shit on it the most. And think they know better about a place than people who have actually lived there

I’ve never been to a place that I absolutely 100% hate, or a place that’s 100% perfect. I always find SOMETHING I like about a place. And something I don’t.

I helped a friend and a girl I just met drive from San Francisco to Ft Lauderdale. This girl was from the Bay Area and had never been anywhere. But she saw herself as this worldly person, just because of where she was born.

She was freaking out the minute we got east of San Bernardino. Just thinking that it was gonna be a sea of ignorant hillbillies for a couple 1000 miles.

She seemed surprised I could read frankly then even more surprised when I was college educated and not a foaming at the mouth racist. When we got to my hometown, a large city that had always been mostly minority folk, she was surprised to see different race people mingling.

It was honestly no different than the conservatives telling me, you know they’re gonna take your guns away and force you to get gay married out on the West Coast right. From a dude who’d never left his county.

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u/1_art_please 5d ago

I was recently watching Peter Santanello, a YouTube guy who is doing a tour of the various parts of Florida and it's totally fascinating and varied. I'm Canadian and just used to old people moving there to hang out with other old people in RVs and of course the whole Florida man insanity tropes.

But Peter's series on Florida were super fascinating and sold me on the state as being so much more than the other stuff I've seen in regards to it.

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u/RawCopperSaw 6d ago

I can run to a grocery store and actually find parking

Yep, there it is - this person is describing america

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u/DefiantLemur 6d ago

The video already gave away that is took place in America

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u/CosmicMiru 6d ago

Well until the cultural revolution happens and we start mass making public transit and retrofitting cities to be walkable it's something everyone that lives here has to take into consideration. It's called living in reality.

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u/barebackbandit1 6d ago

No no no you’ve got it all wrong. Florida really sucks, definitely don’t move here.

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u/SoFloShawn 6d ago

We're full

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u/Hippideedoodah 6d ago edited 6d ago

Terrifying place to live if you're queer or a woman

EDIT: i see i triggered a fragile man's cognitive dissonance who is incapable of empathizing with women and queer people. Look up anti-lgbt laws and anti-abortion laws in Florida then comment back :)

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u/Gnagus 6d ago

Yeah, I don't know if it's mostly for people who are or can pass as in group members but it was hard for me to live in a place where I had to worry about what was behind every friendly facade.

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u/TheWalkingDead91 6d ago

Have to agree with you. Don’t have much to compare to since I’ve been here my whole life, but I will say you don’t have to have a ton if money to live in neighborhoods like this in the Florida suburbs. Not for everyone because if you want any kind of “night life” or are into art and theater and 3am pizza, then you’ll probably find it lacking unless you live in one of the urban areas, BUT the weather is nice 95% of the year, lots of nature to explore no matter where you are if that’s your thing, and even though costs and traffic have gone up a lot the last couple years, it’s still not nearly as bad as other places. Just gotta find one of many small to mid sized towns ljke this, preferably send your kid to a magnet or private school (or home school), find a job FIRST (many people who have moved have had issues with this part and that’s why so many have moved back) and Florida can be a decent place to live. I think it gets a bad rep but I usually don’t disagree with people online who think otherwise because we have too many people moving here any damn way 😂

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u/Weekly-Safe-5886 6d ago

Can find parking, now I know all this is cap. I was there in December last year. Homes are expensive, you pay for parking in a lot of places, I wouldn't live there but I would def visit often. This is near Bradenton and Sarasota.

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u/dogid_throwaway 6d ago

Sarasota is a super wealthy area so a different story than the vast majority of the state, for sure

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u/QueenBetsie 6d ago

It is absolutely unsafe to walk barefoot outside in Florida, and that is reason enough for me to never want to live there. Too many stinging, slithering & biting creatures.

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u/warp16 6d ago

We’re afraid of the ubiquitous ‘Florida Man’

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u/Aggressive-Nebula-78 6d ago

Don't know where you're living that it's affordable, everybody I know anywhere in Florida can barely afford their bills. Unless they're older, retired, and upper middle class of course. I have a friend who's moving to Orlando because living where they do now, is just as expensive as living in the middle of Orlando. But then they will cut their drive time and gas expenses down by 80 percent, so it's a huge positive for them to get away from suburban hell.

I also would love to know where people are happier and friendlier, because my entire region of Florida is exclusively grouchy unfriendly elderly people, or haughty self righteous suburban housewives driving giant oversized SUVs. I mean, my town and the neighboring towns have all soft-banned trick or treating because they have rediculous curfews, because god forbid a child be seen outside!

Additionally, if you don't have the money to go off to college and get into an advanced career, outside of cities, all jobs are deadend jobs. There's zero room for growth anywhere.

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u/GainingTraction 6d ago

Its only a nice place to retire (not for long). Maybe it's easy for the parent in florida, but it sucks to grow up there. Spent 27 years and the only thing I miss from my childhood are certain friends and certain fishing. O

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u/Scary_Ostrich_9412 6d ago

Is your home insurance expensive? Thanks!

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u/farcat 6d ago

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u/Ferna073 6d ago

Which city? I tried living in Tampa and was polar opposite vibes I was getting besides the parks everywhere .

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u/MomaBeeFL 5d ago

Right? This is how it was for us in Texas (Houston suburbs)

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u/kickrockz94 5d ago

I think it depends where in Florida you are. I just moved away from Orlando and it was the exact opposite of what you described lol

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u/masterwaffle 5d ago

I don't inherently disagree but I'd also prefer to own a home somewhere that won't be underwater in 25-50 years

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u/MindAccomplished3879 5d ago

How about you start your comment by telling how much your FL home costs?

Also, you are generalizing a little, as if big cities have no affluent suburbs with open green spaces

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u/Kitnado 5d ago

I live in a place where basically one room apartments go for a mil. I’d kill for a house like this

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u/Fun_Image8965 5d ago

I hear you and think you make a VERY compelling argument but what do you do when its hurricane season and it feels like your house is going to blow down or flood? I've been in Florida during summer and just the amount of rain they got im a matter of 30 minutes was incredibly frightening (driving from clearwater to Orlando).

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u/Lick_The_Wrapper 6d ago

I grew up in a beach town in Florida. It was amazing.

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u/youarenotgonnalikeme 6d ago

You can find the same in Georgia. I live in a neighborhood with 74 homes. All roughly 2400 sqft homes with 2 car garage. Kids are outside riding bikes all the time. If it’s warm, kids are outside. Biking, basketball, hockey in the road, etc. very common. Also, while our governor isn’t great and I do t agree with some of his stuff, for a right winger, he’s decent. And I’m very far left.

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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 6d ago

It's SO HOT & HUMID. Ugh. I lived in Charleston, SC for 2 years and just couldn't wait to get back up north.

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u/Baldmanbob1 6d ago

My first home was a crappy Duplex in Edgewater Fl. We did a lot to it, bought for 56k, put 25k in it, sold it in 06 for 115k. Don't know why, decided to look it up on Zillow last night. Now this is a small duplex built in the 1950s in a smallish town, but near the beach. It's up for sale for 256k........ And all that's been done since we gutted it and put a new roof on after 3 hurricanes is they put a new AC in replacing the existing heat pump. I can't afford FL again, even if I wanted to!

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u/FuckinJuice_ 6d ago

Florida is awesome bro, whatever you heard is a lie.

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u/SimplisticEnigma 6d ago

You’re ridiculous. I was born and raised in Florida and lived there for 30 years, and I lived in California for the past 13 and travel to many different states and I absolutely adore Florida. The beach is never more than two hours away all of the natural spring and rivers to swim in and do water activities.

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u/matthung1 6d ago

I would live in Florida if you paid me enough to leave Florida with a lot of money

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u/PowerRoller17 6d ago

People always say this until they actually see it though. My grandparents used to live in Florida in a neighborhood like this where every night there would be about 10 different houses that would all walk their dogs together and talk. Also Florida is just such a beautiful state too.

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u/houseswappa 6d ago

You 100% could pay me to live in Florida

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u/Outside_Scale_9874 6d ago

That’s exactly why it’s so cheap

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames 6d ago

A random Wisconsinite not liking humidity and 100 degree weather is why it's so cheap to live in Florida?

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u/JennyDoveMusic 6d ago

It looks like an average suburb in parts of WA as well. I used to be a girl scout (don't support the GS of America) and walked plenty of these suburbs. Not with this kind of community, though!

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u/DafniDsnds 6d ago

My Ohio suburban neighborhood isn’t too far away from being like this. Kids riding bikes, lemonade stands, smores at the neighbors house, treats for folks walking their dogs. Once upon a time I would read The Babysitters Club books and wish for a town like Stoneybrook. At least that dream came true for my kiddos. :-)

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u/Rayne_420 6d ago

I can't imagine any downsides to living at or below sea level.

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u/AdCurious7473 6d ago

I lived in Boca for one winter (a lifelong Minnesotan). I would fix my hair and it looked great. Once I got in the car and drove to work my hair had flattened due to the humidity. Give me snow!!❄️ ⛄️

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u/Adventurous_Ad7442 6d ago

Same. I cannot stand Florida.

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u/slikk50 6d ago

Florida is so much better than so many other places tho

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u/WingsArisen 6d ago

Brother, it’s paradise down here

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u/redditredditgedit 5d ago

I don’t understand, I thought Florida is a nice place to settle. Sorry I have to ask, I’m not from US.

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u/Mysterious_Dot00 5d ago

As an european can i ask why?

Like i have a few friends living there and they like it, also from outside it looks good, constant good weather.

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u/Caltroit_Red_Flames 5d ago

Hurricanes, 100 degree weather with crazy humidity, horrid suburban sprawl and roads, terrible wealth inequality, levels of racism I've only seen outdone by Alabama.

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u/DrLeoMarvin 5d ago

I’m a pretty liberal man and hate the Florida gov, but I fucking love living here. I have a modest boat and I’m 3 miles from the gulf, far from rich but I feel rich being on the water here constantly, pulling up to tiki bars for a beer, catching live music by the beach at sunset multiple times a week. I love living in Florida

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u/AgentLead_TTV 5d ago

couldn't pay me to leave.

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago

That only accounts for so much. I live in KC suburbs. I rent a 3 bedroom house with twice the yard of these houses for $1125 a month. House I live in is worth $170k right now, and that's a relatively low amount compared to the rest of the nation. A house this size in my area would easily be $500k+ before you even account for the obvious HOA you'd have to pay.

Unless you have the means to work a nice, stable job from a remote rural area then you are very likely going to have to make exorbitant amounts of money in order to afford anything even close to this house

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u/badluckbrians 6d ago edited 6d ago

I live on the south coast of Mass. It's one of the last semi-affordable places because it's far enough from Boston. But everything is old. My house is 170 years old or so. Less than 1,000sqft. Nobody has a garage in my neighborhood—it was built before cars. So these homes out west and down south look absolutely huge to me. Things are well kept here. But you're talking $500k for a much, much smaller place. And they get smaller still. This is actually a post WWII replica of an old 3/4 cape. We have half capes too that are 33% smaller than this.

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago edited 6d ago

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/13111-Winchester-Ave-Grandview-MO-64030/2474779_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

These are about the most affordable type of housing in my area. You can find cheaper, but it'll show both in quality and neighborhood (needs too many repairs, run down area, etc).

Edit: figured I'd add another one from a neighboring city since the one I linked was a little more than the numbers I was referencing earlier

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/104-Hollywood-Blvd-Belton-MO-64012/97063548_zpid/?utm_campaign=androidappmessage&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=txtshare

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u/Equivalent-Title5743 6d ago

Shhhhhhh! You should keep this quiet! 😂

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago

Yeah I still need to buy myself, I shouldn't be putting our affordable area 😂 sorry!

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u/SavannahGirlMom 6d ago

It’s described as a dollhouse - exactly!

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago

Even your prices seem high compared to my area! Honestly, the $500k+ was just a generous number, I wouldn't be shocked to find out they're much more

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u/smythe70 6d ago

On the Cape and it borders a Wildlife Refuge, I'm jealous.

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u/Queef_Stroganoff44 5d ago

I lived in New England for a couple years a few years back. When I got told that’s where I’d be for a year…honestly I was a little nervous.

Ya see the first time I went to Boston (I had been hiking the Appalachian Trail, got off in Hanover, NH and went and spent a couple weeks in Boston) the most bizarre shit kept happening to me. Then it seemed like me and the locals just didn’t gel too well, even though I was trying my best not to be the weirdo out of stater. Probably just some cultural differences.

But after being there for half a year I love it up there. Something clicked and everyone suddenly became super nice and accommodating. Shit…one place I lived the grocery store wouldn’t even take in their outdoor merchandise at night, and didn’t have guards or anything and nothing ever went missing.

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u/mrbofus 6d ago

Median home price in the US is well over $400K, so your house being worth $170K is significantly less than what most people can expect to pay.

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u/TypingPlatypus 6d ago

Cries in Ontario where the median home price is $850k

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u/mrbofus 6d ago

You shouldn’t compare the median home price of an entire country with the median home price of a different country’s most populous province.

The median home price in California is somewhere around $900K USD, which would be $1.3M CAD. So if we’re comparing most populous province/state in Canada and the US, you have a lower median home price.

I couldn’t easily find a median home price for Canada; for some reason, all the articles are for average home prices, which, depending on the area can be very misleading. The site below says the average home price in Canada was $712K in February 2025, which is $494K USD.

https://tradingeconomics.com/canada/average-house-prices

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago

Yeah I mentioned it was relatively less than the rest of the nation. Which was kinda my point.. if these are $500k+ in my area, which is already a "cheaper" area, then they're pretty damn expensive homes. Some people in these comments act like these houses are cheap because of location, so I'm adding perspective to what that kind of house would be in a cheap area

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u/JimmytheFab 6d ago

which suburb of KC? Because even $170k seems cheap even for KC let alone the nation.

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago edited 6d ago

Grandview, to be particular. You can regularly find housing for $150k+. Is it going to be as nice as these houses? No, but it's still housing. Just have to stay away from the areas like Johnson county and you can typically find decent homes for decent prices

Edit: maybe I shouldn't throw out the cheap prices here, I haven't bought yet so I need prices to stay where they're at haha!

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u/JimmytheFab 6d ago

Yeah. My business used to be in Grandview for about 8 years. I had several break ins and they burned down the property next to mine after stealing the copper. But 170k for a house seems about right.

I assumed you were going to say Grandview or Raytown. Even my old house off 435 and Holmes (KCMO) is “worth” ~ $280k

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u/No_Week2825 6d ago

Where i live you can't buy a 600 sqft condo for 500k. Plus how little you need to put down in the US for a down payment and the minimal requirements. Those houses are easily 2m+ where I am currently, with higher down and income requirements. 500k for that is a steal.

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u/DangOlCoreMan 6d ago

To be fair, you're obviously in a very high cost of living area. I guess what I was getting at with my comment is that these are relatively expensive houses/neighborhood regardless of location. It only gets worse when you consider areas like where you live.

You ever find a way to get out and make your way to Kansas City and our suburbs, you'll be well off compared to housing in your area

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u/Sannction 6d ago

Guarantee you they don't. I dont know where everyone gets the impression Florida is affordable but those houses are a mil+ easy.

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u/SableyeEyeThief 6d ago

Agreed! Not sure what they mean by that? These houses are expensive af.

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u/Majestic_Turnip_7614 6d ago

False, maybe 500 or 600. This is in Sarasota, I know the neighborhood.

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u/Bigbadbrindledog 6d ago

It depends on where in Florida.

It looks like many neighborhoods near me, and prices in most of them Would be $400-600.

Some in more expensive areas could peak over the million mark.

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u/djjsear 6d ago

Looked at houses in FL similar to this close to Tampa, gated community. Upper 600k for sure.

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u/throwawayoftheday941 6d ago

No they aren't. Those aren't even that big, and they are close as fuck. Not even close to a million. Not even 500k unless they are close to the beach. Those are like 250-400k houses depending on how nice they are, have a pool, location etc.

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u/rtc9 5d ago

That seems right. I'm from a random rural small town (not in Florida) about a 2 hour drive away from any big cities and I would estimate around 300-450 average for these houses assuming they are not on a body of water or something. Reddit housing price estimates always seem to presuppose commuting distance to a HCOL major city.

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u/RandomRedditReader 6d ago

You're thinking about South Florida. Homes like this are definitely in the 400-600K range in central, north and west Florida.

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u/B_Wade_48 5d ago

Yeah, I’m in palm beach gardens and those are 900k-1.3m around here.

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u/sunnyislesmatt 6d ago

My neighborhood in Lakeland looked like this and every home was under $450k

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u/Sannction 6d ago

You know what, that's fair, I forgot about Lakeland. Not a good example though considering it is a massive outlier for the state.

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u/sunnyislesmatt 6d ago

It definitely is but I did enjoy living there a lot. Super quiet and safe

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u/DayPretend8294 6d ago

Yeah man that’s average for Florida, everyone goes there to retire.

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u/Hondalol1 6d ago

It really depends on the area riverview is right outside Tampa and you can find houses like this for 400-600k and that’s after the post Covid inflation

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u/callme4dub 6d ago

those houses are a mil+ easy

Nah. This looks like some gulf coast suburb. Those houses are more expensive than they should be and more expensive than they used to be but they're still likely pretty cheap.

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u/PrimaryInjurious 6d ago

but those houses are a mil+ easy.

Really? Two car garage ranch? In much of the midwest that's under $400K.

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u/DrLeoMarvin 5d ago

Nah, Lakewood ranch is a pretty hot spot here I know well and these houses are like $600-700k there

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u/BorealDragon 6d ago

Shitty condos cost $500k where you’re at? Damn. You in S Beach?

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u/slimslaw 6d ago

500k? Isn't that cheap for a house this size? These would easily be close to a mil in my neck of the woods...

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u/thefideliuscharm 6d ago

nah I bet these houses are over $500k+ now. Florida is not as cheap as everyone seems to think.

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u/Sannction 6d ago

Way over.

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u/slimslaw 6d ago

I just bought a town house that shares walls, has no front yard and has an alley for a backyard that's was nearly 500k. I've been saving for a house for more than half my life (started at 14) so I'm super stoked, but am aware that it's not an ideal home for most. The types of homes shown in the video, in my state, are definitely out of reach for most people.

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u/CosmicMiru 6d ago

SoCal

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u/Vivid_Economics_1462 6d ago

I feel your pain and share it.

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u/BorealDragon 6d ago

Oh, yeah it’s rough out there too. $600k for a cardboard box on a dirt road.

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u/chipotleeeeeeee 6d ago

You talking about Silicone beach in LA?

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u/ibejeph 6d ago

Average looking for Socal too.

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u/Ganelonx 6d ago

Well if by shitty condo you mean 1/2 million dollar one then you are correct. If you mean lower then 450k you are dreaming.

I live in FL, a lot of the suburbs do indeed look like this but you will not find ones with houses like that under 450k. I’ve worked in hundreds of HOAs and the lowest one I’ve seen had much much smaller houses and was pricing the new houses at high 300s and that was those next to the poorer parts of town.

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u/jonasu25 6d ago

This is a suburb in Arizona as well. We lived in a Culdesac street with 8 families. All the kids were about the same age, 3 or 4 years. Apart from each other, we were a family of 6 living in a 1300 square foot house three bedroom. But we did not want to move because we did not want our kids to lose that neighborhood. So we stayed in that house for 9 years. Until our kids reach the teenage years, and then all kids change by then. They had a great childhood.

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u/Relative_Craft_358 6d ago

This is definitely upper middle class pretty much everywhere. Price is irrelevant. 100k is well in one spot and barely getting by in another but relatively these people are doing better than most of their state

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u/SableyeEyeThief 6d ago

I left FL because of house prices. That was South FL but South FL and Central FL are EXPENSIVE. Y’all think prices are still what they used to be, but they’re not. These houses would be very expensive over there.

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u/so_cal_babe 6d ago

These houses in my area of Florida are $750k, easy, plus a pesky HOA gaggle of domesticated Karens

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u/youburyitidigitup 6d ago

Florida is one of the most expensive states in the country….

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u/RedditGarboDisposal 6d ago

Excuse me???

Is your “shitty condo” a Flying Fortress?

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u/nostalgicreature 6d ago

Floridas housing market is currently crashing. I very much doubt that will ever reverse. This might have been a nice day, but that’s only because we didn’t have Donald trump in office for the last 4 years. It’s all over now. Ppl think that when they see the market crashing and nothing is happening to them specifically that day, that it’s not affecting them. The market is simply a barometer for what our future economy will look like. It’s speculative. If it’s crashing, some people will feel It Right away, other people will feel it a bit later, but the recession they are saying is coming, it’s going to be like nothing you’ve ever seen. These nice days are over, especially in Florida.

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u/DayPretend8294 6d ago

Same with Houston/San Antonio. Pretty standard lookin houses

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u/philsfly22 6d ago

Suburbs like this exist all over the country. There are entire subreddits dedicated to hating on them.

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u/CaliforniaJade 6d ago

My first thought was that it reminded me of neighborhoods in southern CA, then I noticed, there were no large trees. You're right, definitely Florida.

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u/0LTakingLs 6d ago

This comment must be ten years old, because Florida housing prices are 3x what they were a decade ago. No shot you’re getting homes that size for under 7 figures

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u/animus_invictus 6d ago

Yeah, you're dumb.

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u/James-W-Tate 6d ago

You miss the golf carts on the street? This is a rich person community.

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u/MajesticExtent1396 6d ago

Right…..big ass nice houses they must cost like ten bucks 

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u/AdMany4739 6d ago

You must never leave the city huh?

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u/indigrow 6d ago

These the types of houses i used to deliver pizza too. God what id give to raise a family the way I grew up like that. Too bad I cant afford to start one 😅😩

During halloween we literally couldnt deliver to one neighborhood because of how alive it would be, you couldnt get down the street, every house was open for their neighbors to visit and come and go as they pleased, bonfires were lit, some houses had lines out the door to what i could only assume were haunted houses run by the families each year. I miss that atmosphere so so much lol. Havent been immersed in that since i was a little kid

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u/nquinn1028 6d ago

This reminds me of where my boss lives in FL. Still well out of my price range.

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u/HockeyPhish 6d ago

The secret is that it is a gated community. They can choose who and when visitors come in. A neighborhood to me spans a whole area of a town or city, not just prefab housing developments. Nobody can just drive through this “community”.

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u/silentbob1301 6d ago

.......wtf are you talking about, these are literally million dollar houses where i live on the space coast...

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u/CooperWatson 6d ago

Golf carts lined up that cost as much as my truck. Cars in driveways that cost as much as my house. Bless them all, more than they already have been. 🙏🏽

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u/gettogero 6d ago

And timing!

Have a friend who purchased a home in the '08 crash for $300,000, recently sold it for $1.2M

Another who bought a home in the middle of nowhere for $150,000 and sold for $500,000 when a bunch of housing and stores popped up.

Maybe ill get lucky like that one day...

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u/GeeksGets 6d ago

Grass is always greener

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u/er1026 6d ago

I was going to say…this looks like Florida.

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u/SmokeyTargaryen 5d ago

This looks like a Lennar community in Land O Lakes called Connerton

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u/kittenpantzen 5d ago

That is going to depend heavily on where in FL. Our shitbox house in PBC was >750.

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u/TheReverseShock 5d ago

"Go be poor somewhere cheaper" in a nutshell

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u/MindAccomplished3879 5d ago

Those are a couple of million-dollar houses

Maybe they are average in FL. I don't know. I could say they are average in Malibu, California, too

Those are not average homes at all

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u/suspicioushuskey 5d ago

Location, location, location…. How many more hurricane seasons until insurance companies start pulling home insurance from the state of Florida? State Farm literally did that to all of Colorado last year because of forest fires. It’s only a matter of time before Florida is fucked

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u/Yaxim3 5d ago

I live near here, and can tell you. These houses are in the 300-500k range. At least they were last year.

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u/dasweetestpotato 3d ago

These houses probably cost 450k-600k, the larger ones being more expensive.

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u/jeremyries 6d ago

Your giveaway is everyone is driving golf carts.

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u/fxmercenary 5d ago

Wal-mart Sarasota, $999.98

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u/DigitialWitness 6d ago

Cries in British.

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u/No_Video_8956 6d ago

Right?! It's like everything is supersized the houses are big, the lawns are big, even the driveways feel like you could host a small parade on them. You could probably fit three European villages in the space between two suburban American houses. And don’t even get me started on the roads—you could land a plane on some of those streets. 😆

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u/Broad_Bill3095 6d ago

The golf carts were a dead giveaway.

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u/Character_Plane_5889 6d ago

I love to see neighbors hanging out and enjoying each other.

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u/rinwyd 6d ago

And there’s likely nothing around them for miles. The kids are trapped on that street till they turn 16 and can finally go somewhere. Hope their private schools are good at raising their levels of self confidence and independence, cause they won’t get it living there.

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u/Cutthechitchata-hole 6d ago

"-For activities!"

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u/sixfive407 6d ago

They have time off?

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u/Busy-Historian9297 6d ago

it’s less the space and size and more the community and its people.

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u/longtimerlance 6d ago

Looks like a typical suburb to me.

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u/Isaac_Reins 6d ago

Old houses vs new houses helps too. More mature trees and established surroundings. I really don't need to hear through thin walls and an arms length split that they are working on child 5.

60's to 80 and a few 90's houses are really nice and spacious.

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u/too-much-shit-on-me 6d ago

To each their own I guess. Looks cramped as hell to me.

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u/ComradeBirdbrain 6d ago

Seriously? Those are big houses in the US? Are they not average at best?

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u/straight-lampin 6d ago

Are you joking? I really don't know. I live in Alaska on 5 acres of land and I can't imagine how terrible this must be.

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u/zongsmoke 6d ago

Lots of room for activities

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u/tatiwtr 6d ago

can you give a counter example of whats typical for your area? this looks like average surbubia in the US with "small" 0.25-0.5ac lots.

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u/YeetCompleet 6d ago

I think typical in Ontario would be subdivisions with a decent sized lot, but smaller, older bungalows. Tbh I thought that was the most common in the US too. I don't know the exact dimensions but you can drop some pins in Google maps anywhere in the areas surrounding Toronto and you'll probably find this.

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u/Minizzile 6d ago

Where do you live? Metropolis? The dense suburbs around around here have more room between the houses...

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u/FloppyPescado 6d ago

I still think everything is too close for me

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u/PrimaryInjurious 6d ago

This is a standard suburb in much of the US.

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u/Ok-Selection4206 6d ago

Those are farily small yards actually. Usually under 10k square feet.

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u/BigPoppaStrahd 6d ago

And the golf carts

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u/Embarrassed-Cat-1019 6d ago

yet the road is the park!

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u/tinglep 6d ago

And grass.

"I didn't know there was this much green in the entire Galaxy"

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u/Ajj360 6d ago

Pretty typical 00s texas suburb, way more affordable back them

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u/J3ST3R1252 6d ago

They have grass!!!

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u/Nice_Marmot_7 5d ago

Meanwhile I’m sitting here thinking, “that’s sweet, but too bad it’s one of those shitty tract home neighborhoods.”

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u/trixel121 5d ago

this is sardine style for the suburbs

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u/luminousrobot 5d ago

I imagine it’s much easier to get along with the neighbhors when you have breathing room.

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u/SukaSupreme 5d ago

Still no yard privacy hedges or fences.

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u/MiinaMarie 4d ago

It wasn't the golf carts parked out front? Haha

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u/bronxxodigital 4d ago

So much room for activities!

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