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re: Cookie Cutter Subdivisions
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:47 pm to Mr Clean
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:47 pm to Mr Clean
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That’s been happening nonstop since the year 2000
Levittown NY says hold my bee(Post WWII)
The Eichler development where I grew up had a total of two house plans Two for the whole neighborhood. Circa 1952, San Mateo CA
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Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:47 pm to Mr Clean
quote:
That’s been happening nonstop since the year 2000
It's been happening since the explosion of the suburbs post-WW2, though it definitely has gotten worse since 2000. The older ones at least look solidly built. A lot of these new ones just look cheap and shoddily thrown up.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:49 pm to The Spleen
Never understood cookie cutter living. For what most people pay, they could move a little ways out of town, have some land and more house!
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:49 pm to SaintlyTiger88
My house was built in 2000(trashy I know to have old house) and the whole neighborhood is this way. I feel like it has been this way since 1990 or so
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:49 pm to The Spleen
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The older ones at least look solidly built. A lot of these new ones just look cheap and shoddily thrown up.
older houses as in like pre-WWII may have an argument, but older as in 50s-70s boom? no way. new codes and materials make new homes a lot better built
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:49 pm to tigerinthebueche
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Because they’re cheap houses that are going to be
Flooded next major rain event cause they’re building them in cane fields with no regard to infrastructure. See Broussard or Youngsville.
That's what Retention Ponds are for
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:51 pm to SlowFlowPro
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older houses as in like pre-WWII may have an argument, but older as in 50s-70s boom? no way. new codes and materials make new homes a lot better built
I know the Ranch Style brick home I grew up in and lived in for two decades had zero issues. I believe it was built in the 70s. I have not lived in it for 2 decades and it still looks exactly the same when I pass by.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:52 pm to SlowFlowPro
My home was built in 1996 and it as solid as a rock. When were shopping for a new home last year all the new houses were nice looking until you looked closely. The craftsmanship was definitely lacking.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:52 pm to Blaeke
Solid post, much enjoyed
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:53 pm to SaintlyTiger88
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I don’t know about other places, but here in the Lafayette area, new subdivisions are popping up everywhere.
It happens when growth happens. Not enough housing inventory to meet the needs of the people moving into the area, so they go with new housing.
Everyone wants relatively close to the same thing, so production builders basically develop a few blueprints with slightly different finishes.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:54 pm to LSUlefty
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That's what Retention Ponds are for
What happens when the pond fills up?
Some of those houses down Morgan towards YV look to be built below road level. And Morgan Ave shoulda been a three lane before any of those houses were built. The day of reckoning is coming
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:54 pm to SaintlyTiger88
You ever look at something like an ant bed or crawfish mound and realize how predictable and amazing something so simple could be. That these animals are programmed to make these massive repeating patterns. And then, you get on google maps, zoom over any major city, and realize we're exactly the same.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:55 pm to SaintlyTiger88
I don't get the hate for cookie cutter. I live what's probably considered a cookie cutter house. It appeals to me and will have mass appeal when I got to sell it. There's a reason I bought it over the house that had random tiny bathrooms scattered in odd places or the house with a giant custom kitchen and no place to put a laundry set up
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:55 pm to The Spleen
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A lot of these new ones just look cheap and shoddily thrown up.
We dealt with this a bit when house hunting about a year ago, we looked at everything from new construction all the way to 70 year old houses. Practically everything new construction we looked at just felt cheap, yet were always a much higher $/sq ft. They'd throw the cheapest trendy shite at a new build and slap a $300k price tag on it and it would be sold in a couple weeks.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:56 pm to SaintlyTiger88
It’s all about profit (using all of the reasons from above).
On another note, our developer decided to sell a few lots independently and allow these “lot purchasers“ to build custom homes.
Some of the geriatric’s in the hood were BIGLY pissed off that those custom homes weren’t going to be “French Provincial” in design. He told them to frick off. There was enough of them, however, to take over the HOA once the developer sold the last lot / home.
Now, we have the garden gestapo patrolling the streets looking for shite to write up. It
On another note, our developer decided to sell a few lots independently and allow these “lot purchasers“ to build custom homes.
Some of the geriatric’s in the hood were BIGLY pissed off that those custom homes weren’t going to be “French Provincial” in design. He told them to frick off. There was enough of them, however, to take over the HOA once the developer sold the last lot / home.
Now, we have the garden gestapo patrolling the streets looking for shite to write up. It
Posted on 5/27/21 at 1:57 pm to Blaeke
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Not nearly as bad as the cookie cutter apartment buildings, uninspiring wall murals, and rows of garbage IPA breweries that stupid millennials wax poetically about when talking about urban living. Oh joy, another axe throwing escape room variant opened.
PREACH
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:00 pm to YOURADHERE
quote:Definitely noticed this trend in the Lafayette area. I wonder who the hell is going to live in all of these new houses. With the state of the oil and gas industry in the area, it's not like the economy is booming and lots of people are moving in from elsewhere. This might be part of the reason for getting away from the custom built houses. The people who are in the market are more likely to be looking for inexpensive housing these days.
Seems a bunch of builders in Lafayette have moved away from custom built homes and are now buying up land, developing the subdivision, and building all the homes.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:02 pm to Animal
quote:That's really fast to build a house.
After a while we averaged a house completion every 4 days.
Seriously, the time frame (less any supply chain-related issues) for tract builders to build a house is around 40-45 days.
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:03 pm to SaintlyTiger88
Old growth trees ogtfo
Posted on 5/27/21 at 2:03 pm to Blaeke
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Not nearly as bad as the cookie cutter apartment buildings, uninspiring wall murals, and rows of garbage IPA breweries that stupid millennials wax poetically about when talking about urban living. Oh joy, another axe throwing escape room variant opened.
Those things have been popping up like weeds. You'd think they'd go out of style, but I guess each passing year mints a new graduating class of hipsters.
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