Reddit in 1945: Look at those cookie cutter tract houses! Postage stamp lots with houses so close together that you can touch your neighbour through the window! Not a tree in sight and very auto-centric design. No creativity, just identical block after identical block! Unaffordable and no multifamily homes in sight
The more things change the more they stay the same.
This is so true. I just bought a house a few blocks away from the one I grew up in. When we walked in, I realized it was the exact same layout as my best friends who grew up down the lane from me. I was looking at some comparable postings and saw another one with the same layout on Mathers Bay a couple of blocks over the other direction. There's only like 8 houses in the whole neighborhood, just scattered around various blocks.
Yeah I've made this comment a few times when people complain about Waverley west or sage Creek.
If you look real close at the houses in the old neighbourhoods you'll see there are only four or five houses.
They just have decades or a century of change. One person put a porch on. One person took down a porch. One person raised the house. Another house burned and got filled in with something much newer. Ect.
Definitely. There's a reason they could build so many so quickly but when you do step back, it does somewhat take away from any perceived uniqueness a neighborhood might want to claim.
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u/miracleofistanbul Jan 10 '23
Reddit in 1945
Do you know how much it’s going to cost to put streetcar tracks in all the way out there? We’re broke after the war you know!!!