The feeling of looking outside and seeing the tons of cars pass by while your father yells at you about how “phones are bad, people are addicted, they won’t even go outside anymore”

That’s a lot of asphalt.

Houses used to be multi-generational

Sad that 2 families without taste live (on the same space) instead of none.

You ain’t whatever and I love you

Yeah I’m honestly a bit more upset that they painted that beautiful brick house neon blue

Getting rid of grass isn’t a bad thing. Pavers isn’t great, but grass is horrible.

If they had brought the house forward a bit they could have a normal size front area, and a bit of back garden which is more useful. Could even have divided up the land a bit better to leave some space around the house on the left. I guess it was done this way so as not to block the view of the house on the left, but the whole thing just seems like bad planning and bad taste.

It looks like it went from a warm, shared neighborhood to mismatched, isolated islands.

The saddest part to me is the loss of the matching fence style and what appears to be a shared gate to access the sidewalk. The neighborhood I grew up in had a lot of connected yards like that, and it was really nice.

This.

When studying architecture, one of the things I discovered is how well modern buildings can fit together with pretty much any older style… but it has to be done with a little bit of finesse. The lack of a gate and ugly lawn here are pretty bad.

The house on the left though… That’s a crime against good taste.

House on the left? You mean the small blue barn?

The hip new development near me, which is packed with townhomes and some restaurants and businesses in the middle, has so many $50K-$80K SUVs parked along the road.

Yeah I see freedom here. The basic freedom everyone claims to love, to do whatever you want in the domestic sphere so long as it doesn’t harm anyone.

I also actually like it, but I have atypical tastes.

Yes. In France we enforce local urbanism rules to ensure neighborhoods and cities are globally nice-looking and restrict land usage. It’s good.

The only constant in life is change.

is that a quote from somewhere?

Well I’m guessing one of the houses sold their land so it’s their own fault anyway.

I think you could legitimately criticize how the property on the right now has a ton more asphalt. It is impermeable and absorbs a lot of best from the sun. This small amount probably isn’t noticeable, but if everyone else in the neighbordhood did this the whole area would be a heat island and have flooding/drought issues.

Also it’s hard to see the Before yard because of the fence, but what little green is left in the After looks like a monoculture of grass that I suspect is not native. Not great for pollinators. Once again, the kind of thing that doesn’t make much difference for one house but makes a huge difference when it gets popular.

I really like the blue paint job on the left. It’s fun and interesting without being obnoxious.

I think it’s nice that that huge swath of useless lawn is now another home. Everyone wants more and cheaper housing until it messes up the look of their own neighborhood I guess.

Probably absentee owners that want a no- to minimal-care landscape that won’t cost them anything to maintain or become an infrequently maintained eyesore and catch the council’s attention for fines.

Is have to see the interior of the new one because the front room looks like a waiting area

The floor is slanted.

After the turn on their side of the fence, it’s even at a third height. Nothing matches!