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Housing Bubble 2: Return of the Ugly

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So nice that the cars left some space for the people to live in

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

A lot of people use their garage as storage instead of parking their car in it, especially smaller garages like that one

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That’s slightly better but it’s still putting stuff over people.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Then just build a house instead

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The fun size part doesn't really bother me. For someone like me with no intention of having a family, 969 sq ft seems fine, maybe even more than I'd ever need. The price could be (a lot) better, and I definitely wouldn't want to live in Arizona, but if I did I'd want to be closer to the city than this Florence appears to be.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 month ago (5 children)

The real issue here is the waste of space. Since they're already small why have them be individual houses? This would wait more sense as a series of duplexes or something. Small apartment buildings. Hell condos like they say.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I want to own something and I want an actual garden to grow things in.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not sure what you're going to grow there. On the other hand, I love prickly pear margaritas....

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I lived in a duplex for 5 years and the neighbors were so stupid they made me move out.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

i swear in my apartment the upstairs neighbors would move their dining room table every day. and then play bowling

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Sounds annoying... I'm talking about death threats in my case...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Is Arizona a bad place to live. I keep hearing this.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

I live here. The fuck does everybody want to move here for? Public transit sucks, traffic congestion abound, school system is dogshit, you have the elderly that can't drive but still do and are usually horribly bigoted and racist at the W and E ends of the valley, like they are doing a flanking maneuver. We've been in a drought for decades, the power system is only 'fine' even though we have a fucking nuclear plant outside phoenix, plus solar and hydro. We have rich cunts in the east valley and the west is deteriorating even with the constant population and building expansion.

I like it here because I was born here, everything I know is here. But objectively, anybody wanting to move here is both insane and braindead. It's fucking baffling.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Ive heard the city of Pheonix described as "the single greatest testament to man's arrogance"... But idk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is a bad place to live. The GOP destroyed the bus system, delayed the light rail, starved the schools, poisoned the police departments, and just generally fucked up as much shit as they could before they got voted out.

On top of that you have the climate and two of the deadliest highway stretches in America. (One gets sandstorms, the other gets blizzards and features cliffs)

And the local politics is so crappy they managed to push an NHL team out of the market.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Temperature wise it is different— from Oct - April it is amazing

When I was in 4th grade , I couldn’t understand why the passengers on Titanic died in the water. In Phx it was always so warm.

From May - September you are living on the surface of the Sun.

As a cyclist, is get up at 4 so I could do 50 miles and be home by 9 before it hit 100. You don’t go out unless it is to get in the pool. Unless you really must.

It would take a 300000 /yr for me to consider living there again

—moved away at 20. Don’t ever want to go back

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

For me it would just be too damn hot, I'm not real keen on living in a desert.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (12 children)

These are rational housing sizes. People talk about older generations buying houses right on the cheap, my parents raised 5 kids in a 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom home that was around 900 square feet. This is a reasonable size for a family. Old guy rant off.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It looks like if you park your car in the driveway you get twice the space in the house.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Garages are just storage units. Nobody really parks their car in the garaze, right?

^right?^

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

I don't know this "garage" you speak of, but my house came with a 25' x 25' detached storage unit with two large overhead bay doors. Oddly, the neighbors store their cars in theirs.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (4 children)

If you live anywhere that has extreme temperatures, your car will last longer if you park it inside. Bonus, you don't have to scrape the snow off and sit there idling for 10 min to warm it up in the winter.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

I've been to Florence. If you're not working a farm, retail, or a prison, you don't have a job there. It's not a commuter town for Phoenix. Given the choice I'd live in the metro area over Florence any day of the week.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

JFC my apartment in Chicagoland is 660ish sqft and costs $1100 a month. And our area isn't doomed to turn into the American Sahara in a century. fuuuuuuuck that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

No, Florence is not anywhere near Rio Verde Foothills tbh. Florence is actually in a very red county, and houses the state, county, and many private prisons. They shut down all the roads and do vehicle inspections when there is a jailbreak. It is the county seat, and most of the people working in that city do so in a government capacity.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Uhh 90m^2 house with half of it occupied by a fucking large garage...?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Dunno about Arizona but everywhere I’ve lived unconditioned space like a garage wouldn’t count towards the square footage.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Ah so it's "livable square feet" on the post or w/e it's called, not total

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Hard to tell for sure since it’s just a screenshot but that would be my assumption

ETA: Found this floor plan for a similar sqft from the same builder also in Florence, AZ

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

It should say that somewhere in the ad (in the US) or the garage/unconditioned space is omitted entirely even if it is a 24x24 or something. It might get a separate mention though depending on who is selling.

It’s bonkers, but it varies regionally in the US on how a garage space is treated. Midwest? You park a car in there out of the snow/elements. Southeast? It’s for all the junk you don’t want in the house.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

A condo in downtown plz

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I don't see any flaws in that plan. When I'm home I'm basically either there or in bed. Bikes ain't gonna wrench on themselves.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

We’ve gone from one extreme (McMansions) to the other (tiny homes). I wonder how closely packed together these are.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Downtown where? No condos you can compare are that cheap near Scottsdale or PHX that you'd want to live in. Those run about $100k more.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Oh wow only the equivalent of living in downtown Dayton when you want to be in Columbus.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

661 sq ft is smaller than my shitty apartment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I've found that it really, really depends on how well the space is used. I lived in an apartment that was about 650sq ft with me, a chihuahua, and sometimes a retriever if I had a foster, but the layout was terrible and there was no storage, so it felt super cramped. Then my ex and I had a 700-ish sq ft place with 2 small dogs and it never felt claustrophobic. I've also toured tiny homes in the <350sq ft range that I'd pick over some apartments twice that size. The houses might be ok if they aren't just "take a regular floorplan and shrink all the rooms."

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