Yeah… well, maybe if you didn’t spend $60k on a truck and another $10k on a lift kit, you could afford a normal-sized house.
The hell do you need a lifted F-250 for?! You’re not hauling anything, you’re not towing anything, and that lift kit just ruined whatever practical use the truck had in the first place.
So you’ve got a 6,000-pound grocery-getting overcompensation machine that’s somehow less useful than the truck was before you modified it.
Congratulations. You spent $70k to make a work truck worse at doing work.
People who buy these trucks are not generally paying cash. After taxes and loan interest, that $70K overcompensation machine is easily over $100K, more than the tiny home.
You know when I feel the most manly? When I successfully load my Kia Soul EV with groceries from Costco AND manage to get all four of my kids in there as well. A big pick-up truck is just cheating.
Is that a garbage truck ?
lol if you’re the type of douchenozzle who has to buy a truck that’s as big as a tiny home, then parking is going to be an issue anywhere you go
less than zero sympathy
I still feel for their neighbours, and to some degree trucks being fielded as the pinnacle of masculinity has turned a lot of fragile men into victims but thats a little less salient.
Victims of their own insecurity and financial stupidity perhaps.
Nothing happens in a vacuum.
Insecurity is applied through marketing and social pressure, financial stupidity is a failure of schooling.
Im not saying they’re great people and you should love them, just trying to live up to my name.
That place seems to be still under construction. I bet that truck belongs to one of the people working there.
Simultaneously under construction based on the silt fencing and ancient based on the warped siding 🤔
People the truck is clearly there for size comparison, to illustrate the size of the tiny homes. I am getting chilly from the draft created by this flying over so many of your heads.
So you’re saying the people in Texas that live in these do not drive massive trucks?
Where did I say that?
You said it when you posted on Lemmy.
Everyone here is deeply damaged. If you say you like pancakes on this platform, someone’s going to jump to the conclusion that you want to genocide the people of Belgium for having invented the waffle, because if you like pancakes you must hate waffles.
Why you got to be a breakfast nazi like that, lowspeedchase?
I think they’re saying the people with massive trucks would also park in their driveway
There are no driveways, and that truck was digitally added.
There are definitely driveways. This makes it clearer: https://www.google.com/maps/@29.4976993,-98.3366750,3a,74.999992y,96.408623h,77.994026t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1sB36ZAVzoMGHPmuy0GE72pQ!2e0?lucs=%2C100826475&g_ep=CAISBjYuMzUuNBgAIIGBASoKLDEwMDgyNjQ3NUICVVM%3D&skid=4f28f4a4-ed4e-4dfa-b4d7-d57e1f1abf2c&g_st=ic&g_st=ic
Ah, okay, so you pull in front of your door got it.
I’m thinking the town still makes it a violation to park in front of someone’s driveway?
I wouldn’t put it past the driver of that kind of pickup truck to be a dick and park across the entrances to their driveway and their neighbor’s driveway rather than just park in their driveway. They don’t have any concern for parking lines or general driving rules.
Yea it would be more realistic if it was just up in the lawn somewhere.
bullshit. you could use any size car to illustrate the size comparison with a tiny home. the title of the post is talking about parking, and the picture shows a clownshoes emotional support truck-- parking problem
Looks like yer average northern English terrace.
Except terraces are sensible and actually make use of the space rather than having gaps for no reason other than to be able to say they’re “detached”
But you can plant some lovely plants that way.
I had the AI draw you a picture because I know reading isnt everyones strong suit.
Or could it be that you don’t know enough about the subject to explain it without using AI?
That’s often the case with people who do this kind of stuff.
Or hear me out the reading comprehension in the room is beyond what i can talk down too without including the words moron. Also its not my fault ya’ll failed out of science and have never once been interested in learning something since. I just soundproofed my house after a lot of research so ya im actually pretty familiar in knowledge and practice!!
Sounds like projection to me.
If you can’t explain the basics of a concept to the average joe, you’re not truly knowledgeable on the subject. That’s just a fact, and it applies to everything.
that’s a wild amount of overhead wires (phone lines…?) too.
and all the house numbers are nowhere near their next-door neighbours’, it would be a nightmare to try to deliver anything or to find a friend’s house
Gotta be AI. Just generated some wires and put random numbers on all the houses.
The numbering is weird… what’s going on?
Another poster figured it out. Real photo of houses - mangled by AI when trying to add the car
convincing gen-ai, maybe?
there seem to be a few letter/logo-esque things on the monster truck around the door & at the back, but on closer inspection, nothing’s legible other than the red x at the back.
Yeah I think you’re right, the silver cutout by the door is a newer Ford Fx50 thing, but the rest of the styling isn’t that close, the lettering isn’t right, and the new Ford truckss I think all have a step cutout in front of the rear wheel
Turns out they don’t build houses like this in the nicest spots
Oscillating rapidly between “holy fuck is this what we’re being reduced to?” And “we really need more shit like this”
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We’re not being reduced to this, this is the missing stepping stone to getting young people on the housing ladder. Ideally these are affordable with a single income, when you get married and are ready for kids you’d sell your 1-2 of these and buy a house. This is a reasonable alternative to a landlord. We really need more shit like this. Unfortunately americans are taken by the American dream, dunno how that happened, but this is the illusion of their white picket fence they long for, its also a good transition to that white picket fence.
Dude I have seen bigger lavatories
Yeh, normal-sized cars are rare these days.
Tiny homes good, this setup is trash. It’s basically apartments.
Apartment but worse
These are apartments that are too libertarian to know to huddle for warmth.
idk who downvoted but this was the funniest comment i read all day.
Yeah I feel like love is doing a lot of lifting in that statement
Yeah its probably “happy that there is finally a house in their price range”
Yeah
I love my shitty ass house, its all i have and its all i need. Honestly the foot print of those houses is the part of my house i actually use. The rest just stores shit or gets used for business purposes. Bills are cheap, cleaning is easy, everything is easy to maintain.
Doesn’t look like an issue if you pull straight in. Pull all the way up and you can have a guest over, though they’ll probably stick out into the sidewalk a bit. Maybe not the best place to host a gentleman/lady caller, but humans gonna human.
Seems inefficient. Why not just build apartments?
I was thinking the same thing, like these are just inefficient townhouses.
I don’t think I could ever bring myself buy a home with shared walls again(condo or townhouse). I’d have no problem renting but there is too much risk in owning something you don’t have full control of
the american dream brooooother. also NIMBYs
Well for one thing “owning” an apartment is a borderline scam. You still have to rely on the actual building owner to take care of it and I swear to god no exaggeration 85% of every landlord that owns apartments is a slumlord. Doesn’t give a fuck about any of it and will raise “maintenance” fees or whatever year over year until its impossible to afford.
And you get neighbors that are fucking nasty most of the time.
Now exceptions to the rule are real nice, real expensive apartments. That you usually only lease. Most of the time if an average big apartment building is selling a individual apartments its because something is wrong.
At least with these you own them and no one can spend all day thinking of a bigger number for you to lose it.
Well for one thing “owning” an apartment is a borderline scam. You still have to rely on the actual building owner to take care of it
You yanks are doing it wrong. There hasn’t been a building owner at any apartment building I’ve lived in. The owners of each apartment, collectively, own the building. Maintenance fees? You agree upon those with the rest of the owners. Repairs need to be done? Shared decision. Someone is appointed to be the manager of the building, but that job just entails sending invoices and making sure everything is done properly, it comes with zero decision-making power generally.
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Or even proper rowhomes with a concrete firewall between them. Looks like everyone would get an extra 6ft (3m) of floor width.
Not hsving to share a wall with your neighbor is probably one of the selling points of that design.
Those walls aren’t going to be stopping sound any better than an apartment wall.
edit: Jesus Christ people don’t understand that cheap ass tiny homes 8 foot apart with no sound barriers really is comparable to apartment walls because the air gap is tiny as fuck and sound is absolutely going to bleed through those cheap ass walls and windows. It is Texas where they don’t require that much insulation which would reduce sound in a cooler climate.
A well built apartment building is going to bleed far less sound. I have never heard my neighbors through the walls in my current apartment, which is at least 40+ years old when they built decent ones, and barely heard them through walls when I lived in post 2000 cheap as construction.
Yea but there’s 2 of them and they’re air gapped.
Okay bro can you explain how sound travels in your universe?
Through solid objects and the air.
These things look cheaply built which means the windows and walls are not soundproofed or anything like that and you will hear everything going on outside because every wall is an exterior wall. An apartment trades the barely effective 6 foot air gap for slightly heavier construction which reduces sound between apartments.
Source: Have lived in cheaply built homes and apartments. Currently live in a decent apartment where the sound doesn’t bleed over from adjoining apartments but does come right in through the windows.
As opposed to a cheaply built apartment? Why are they soundproofing the apartment walls and not the housing walls? Do you guys know we have building codes and standards?
Here, for you too! this is how sound travels in our universe.
Yes, and the materials and build quality matters in my universe.
Those tiny homes are like 8 foot apart with no landscaping which makes the gap far less effective than your example.
Nothing says build quality and material quality quite like “affordable housing”. It must be nice being in a universe where everyone can afford quality and modern housing!
That’s what happens when you build out of cardboard. Somehow that has never been a problem in all the concrete apartments I have lived in my country in Europe.
You know how dumb you sound calling sheet wood cardboard? Would you let me hit you with a piece of the “card board” and then we can discuss the difference?
Did I not reply with hyperbole? Do you think that’s necessary??
Nah, you were just being a dick.
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It was obviously hyperbole. When it comes to soundproofing, sheet wood is about as effective as cardboard, though.
Probably even worse; cardboard (like used for boxes) has a lot of air pockets in it, whereas a ‘solid’ wooden board probably adds resonance.
It wasnt even hyperbole, I live in a house made of actual cardboard siding. Like you’re just making fun of poor people and being ignorant, unoriginal, and not funny. I’m certain you have enough wit to come up with an original joke that makes sense.
Read the user names, idiot.
Right, but you’re forgetting siding --> air gap—>sheetwood----> studbay with foam or glass----> drywall. Thats 4 layers of material to absob soundwaves and displace them. So again it just is a silly joke, its older than you are, find some better material. As i originally stated saying that makes you sound like an ignorant asshole. We also will do offset studbays to increase the material and differentiate the sound path. The engineering is cool. If you’d stop acting like a smart ass you might find it interesting.
I see there are still no signs of intelligent life in the good ol’ US of A.
Not even sure how to respond to this one, are you all just one person? The EU old joke enforcement division? Whats going on with you buddy? give me something to go on.
6,500 comments in a year dude jesus fucking christ get a life!
God help you my child may you find grass to touch.
Do we get to hit you back with a brick? :D
No because I can tell you the difference between a brick and a stone, I’m just asking if I can hit you with a couple pieces of cardboard. Or maybe just interest you in some basic engineering?
We also use sheet wood in Europe frequently, so we’re very familiar with it. We just don’t use it for our outer walls and load bearing parts of a structure.
We also don’t use it for load bearing parts of the structure? Thats the wood studs. wood siding helps with lateral forces and makes the load bearing parts rigid. I’ve been seeing the cardboard joke for 30 years now and im stuck in a house with actual cardboard siding, because again sheathing isn’t load bearing. Its crazy that americans built $20,000 mobile homes and housed all the rural poor in them, its crazy they had cardboard walls. but again this was all 30+ years ago, we build things better now, ya’ll can retire the joke, the only people living in cardboard houses are like me, poor and destitute with no other options.
That’s why I bought a farm. I wanted to get AWAY from people, not closer.
- are they living directly under a bunch of power lines?
- too close together
- looks both mass produced and cobbled together
- weird house numbers
- the truck seems to be labeled in some non-Latin alphabet
I guess the latter points to LLMs…
Did some sleuthing, came up with these:
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2024/02/13/lennar-builder-tiny-home-elm-trails-sales-success.html
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2023/04/19/lennar-tiny-homes-100-k-east-side-elm-trails.htmlWho stole the pic from the last article and put a truck in it while also messing up the house numbers?
If they used AI to jam the truck in it probably mangled the house numbers at the same time.
The pickup? Why, that’s a Ford F350 H3X Powerstroke, heavy on the stroke!
Ford F250/F350 body (illegible fender badge). H3 of Hummer + X of Toyota PRO-4X = H3X (Ford FX4 package also has a red X though). Illegible “Powerstroke” on door (their diesel brand name, gas does not get a badge).
“Yeah, AI knows everything. It definitely knows precisely how big a Ferd Fiftyhundred would look at these houses”. Good catch. Anything but the metric system.
Dammit, I didn’t see your links and found them myself and was coming back to post them. But I have this at least: https://archive.ph/eLAIK
So yep, this is someone “having fun” with the idea either to be funny or to make some sort of point.
It’s Elm Cove, San Antonio, TX (Google Maps)
Holy shit wtf they live in actual hell
Interestingly it looks like there is still something weird with the OP’s picture though. The house numbers for one, and the crosswalk looks different. Could be differences from construction to now but it seems a bit odd.
You watch this surreal movie and realize it’s inspired by actual, real, American suburban neighborhoods.
BTW this is not a commercialised response to tiny houses being hip, this is a response to the housing crisis. Or maybe the two are connected. Anyhow I see tiny houses as a DIY movement, and something that enables you to live on the other side of urban boundaries, and this here is obviously neither.
Who the fucks “love” to live in a cabinet made of wood with pale colors
people who are experiencing housing insecurity for decades?
That is a a correct narrative of course and I would most def understand how such places will benefit those folk with home insecurities, to fux an ongoing issues.
but saying “young people” love those of shitshow cabinets is just forcing a wrong narrative.
Real estate market is a fucking capitlist bubble that in reality should never allowed to exist
The ongoing issue of… not building enough housing for different income brackets and lifestyles? I love my lil shoebox. I need more yard than those people but its a good amount of house for a bachelor.
I have a house built in the 50’s that does indeed dwarf those…whatever the fuck they are. It was built as a 2 bed 1 bath, a wall has been knocked through to make one of the bedrooms into part of the main room…It’s maybe 700 square feet? The issues are, it’s badly laid out and it’s full of my ancestors’ shit. Also it’s badly oriented in a bad location.
I would be fine if the building was smaller, if it was designed by someone who’s head isn’t full of lead. If I do go about building my own home, it’s going to be smaller than this one. And the bedroom will have one dresser in it, not four. And I’ll have one living room with one couch in it, not two. And I won’t bother with a 6-place dining room table.
Texas is experiencing an influx of tech workers from India. These little houses are a major upgrade from conditions most of them are used to back home.
