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September 25, 2006 at 6:59 AM #7596September 25, 2006 at 7:45 AM #36292carlislematthewParticipant
You’re right – they’re ugly. I was out bike riding along the path by Highway 56 on Sunday, and had plenty of time to take a peek. I almost get depressed thinking that I might some day, accidentally perhaps, end up living in one of those.
I agree that landscaping has a decent amount to do with it. You can soften anything with a good amount of trees, plantings, etc. Trees aren’t cheap though, and while you’re planting trees you’re wasting time as you could be BUILDING MORE HOUSES!!!!!
I feel sad for those people that moved into one of those as a stepping stone. “Must buy something, ANYTHING” was the idea. Then, of course, they’d make tons of money and magically move up to a much nicer house in La Jolla, which of course had also magically moved up in price and was still unaffordable.
September 25, 2006 at 8:14 AM #36296JESParticipantTake a drive through Bressi Ranch if you want to see architecture gone awry. Nothing like cracker box houses, alleys for driveways, narrow streets, and best of all Colonial, Spanish, and a bunch of other styles next to one another. Absolutely no flow whatsoever when you have something that looks like the front of the white house next to a stucco’d, Spanish style home.
September 25, 2006 at 8:15 AM #36297JESParticipantTake a drive through Bressi Ranch if you want to see architecture gone awry. Nothing like cracker box houses, alleys for driveways, narrow streets, and best of all Colonial, Spanish, and a bunch of other styles next to one another. Absolutely no flow whatsoever when you have something that looks like the front of the white house next to a stucco’d, Spanish style home.
September 25, 2006 at 8:26 AM #36298no_such_realityParticipantGive the owners a break.
They work all day in cubeville.
They wouldn’t feel at home unless they were in a slightly larger version of it.
September 25, 2006 at 9:10 AM #36304BugsParticipantI agree with JES (both posts) on the mish-mash of styles in some of these subdivisions. I perceive that as detracting from the sense of neighborhood. I realize they don’t want everything to look the same, but “similar” is not the same thing as “same”.
September 25, 2006 at 10:52 AM #36323anxvarietyParticipantMaybe they can rent these things out as storage units..
September 25, 2006 at 10:56 AM #36326speedingpulletParticipantYeah, I wonder what will happen to places like that.
Most of the time, I think they’ll get torched/bulldozed or simply rot away, and I can’t help but regret the waste of resources like wood, metal, plastic these horrible houses are responsible for. -
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