There is so much wrong with real estate and zoning in this country. There's a lot to find fault with in New Urbanism, but at least they're trying something other than this Sunbelt Levittown madness.

But the thing is, it may look similar from that angle but not so much from street level. And I don't know about you all, but I don't spend that much time hovering a couple hundred feet over my 'hood.

It would bother me that the houses are so close together. I like SFHs, but I want one with some space between me and my neighbors.

Anonymous wrote:OMG. I am so glad that Washington's suburbs do not look anything like the homes in the OP's picture.

On the other hand:
It's basically living in a condo without shared walls and your own garage spot near your unit. Wait a minute, that's starting to sound not so bad....

I imagine living in a rowhouse would be like this.

Anonymous wrote:I see neighborhoods like that from the airplane flying into Dulles and get all twitchy.

It's Ashburn!

OMG. I am so glad that Washington's suburbs do not look anything like the homes in the OP's picture.

On the other hand:
It's basically living in a condo without shared walls and your own garage spot near your unit. Wait a minute, that's starting to sound not so bad....

More like the exurbs than the suburbs. (Farther out.)

My parents live in a similar neighborhood (albeit it's old folks' housing).
There are only a couple different models, and they are not mixed on the street. So if their car is not parked in their driveway (ie it's in the garage), I forget which house is theirs.
This is NOT the house I grew up in, BTW.

I remember a funny story about a coworker who, returning home drunk one night, walked into his house and laid down on the couch. Woke up in the AM and realized he was in the right house, but one street over! He got outta there before he was accused of B&E.

why, why, why would anyone want to live in a neighborhood like that. We went to visit friends in florida and that was their neighborhood. The houses were all the same. They were just 3 different shades of beige and eith with or without the "bonus" room. I could see pulling into the wrond driveway in that sort of neighborhood.

That's life when a developer buys up a ton of land and makes 300+ plots of homes.
So that will not happen with infill building, think central California, Texas, waaaaayyyy outside the beltway. Think Pulte homes, etc. Think all those speculators buying up the land, getting the permits, and then stopping b/c of the market crash.

Anonymous wrote:I see neighborhoods like that from the airplane flying into Dulles and get all twitchy.

haha - that's exactly the area that I was thinking about. The newer communities in Loudoun and even Western Fairfax.

I see neighborhoods like that from the airplane flying into Dulles and get all twitchy.

I live in the burbs, and places like the one pictured make me feel all twitchy.

Is this life in the city?

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