Anyway, as I was saying, Soviet architecture was bland and monotonous.
It's uncomfortable because the houses are so exactly uniform, it looks like SimCity or something
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes made of ticky tacky
Little boxes on the hillside
Little boxes all the same
There's a beige one and a beige one and a beige one and a beige one and they're all on the hillside and they all look just the same
Poles be like:
Emigrate in 1995 because of crushing unemployment and poverty
Work 20 years in France at awful jobs for awful pay
Somehow save up for a piece of land in Poland, in the shittiest village possible, with roads not repaired since socialism and a roadside shrine being the only thing in town.
Start building a two story house with a garden and garage, just like you saw on American TV back in the day.
Realize you vastly overestimated the costs and effort needed, so you leave the building half-finished
Sell the house to a landlord, not getting even half of what you paid, who's going to repeat the process with another bozo.
Go back abroad and live the same shitty life as before, still convinced you're a temporarily embarrassed millionaire.
Alternatively:
Start living in the village, commuting 100km to work and dream of starting a business.
You live in an idyllic, idealized version of a conservative fantasy. A subservient wife, a big car, you don't have to interact with anyone and your kids are going to grow up according to how God™ told them. Spraying antisemitic graffiti on delapidated walls.
(reflexively) You know what's even more depressing? Homelessness.
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:yea:
They exist so those expats can do byzantine real estate scams on one another and not make money
Honestly I feel like I’d forget which house mine was relatively frequently
Streets didn't have names in Dubai until a few years back so you had to remember the exact directions to drive to your house. They use GPS coords now
Looks like a solar panel.
I don't really have anything witty to say about that, but it really does.
is this a bit or do you honestly think this is good development, I genuinely cannot tell
I was just walking through the neighborhood right next to my apartment and while I have complaints about it, at least it is an older suburb that is a part of the city and somewhat walkable. This just looks like hell.
Literally 10x better than new US suburbs:
(1) built on grid
(2) normal sized yard
(3) sidewalks
i like how each of them has a farm. still a suburb though :kim-jong-il:
