I'll never understand why US suburbs like to utterly nuke any kind of nature around their houses and replace it with "lawns". Like, I'd rip that stuff out and at least plant some potats and shit immediately.

I would be so excited to be able to own a home and have 6 other friends.

This is the first thing that came to mind when I saw this.

(Ed, Edd & Eddy was sooo good)

Who is this “everyone”? Because this ain’t even remotely my dream.

1. House needs to be in the mountains
2. Fuck lawns
3. I don’t have this many friends (by choice)
4. If I did, I wouldn’t want to be in this close of proximity to them
5. This place probably has an HOA which is a big fat NOPE

"It would get old fast"? Op, I'm afraid you don't have good friends. When I was a university student, I was in a shared apartment with two friends. It was great: you always had someone to do stuff with and group activities were much easier to schedule.

Now that I'm older it would be nice to easily check who's up for something, spontaneously grill with everyone or simply sit together in the evening and talk.

My friends group still goes on vacation together from time to time and I love it. If your friends are only enjoyable in small doses... I don't know... that sounds sad.

Also with a house of your own, everyone would have enough space to retreat if necessary.

Besides from the bad gardening that was mentioned by the other posts, I would love to live like this.

This looks like hell

Why would you want a house like that. They are all the same characterless houses

Suburbia may be a good place to shelter toddlers, but as soon as a child is more than about 6 years old, being trapped in a mcmansion on the edge of town seriously inhibits their growth and independence. They might be able to walk to a friend's house, if they're lucky enough to live somewhere with a sidewalk, but they're unlikely to be able to walk to school, or anywhere else for that matter. ...

... And it's more than just school, too. Kids have lots of sports and other activities, so [in better urbanist places] it's very common to see children walking or cycling while dressed in football gear (not [American] football) or hockey gear (not [ice] hockey), because they travel to all these activities by themselves.

In the US and Canada you have the stereotype of the suburban 'soccer mum', the mother who spends all of her time shuttling her kids around from school to activities to playdates and back. Because until a kid is about 16 years old and has their own driver's licence, they need to be driven around everywhere by their parents. And this is considered 'normal'.

— Jason Slaughter, 2022

Well that's a shitty looking commune.

Me and the wife befriended the neighbours during lockdown. Hung out all the time, went on several holidays together.

Still pals, was round at one of theirs for dinner the other day.

Lived even closer than this for years. Didn’t get old. Miss it. But had to move on from the communal garden space for the kids.

Suburbian hell aside, noone prohibits you from befriending your neighbors.

Friends 1 and 7 control the choke point and use it to starve the rest of the friends.

Where am I gonna get Vietnamese food in this shitty desolate suburb?

The thing that would get old is managing all that damn grass. That and presumably having to drive 20 minutes to get anything.

Never personally had issues with living near or even with friends. Only ever had issues with was a rando roommate I had because a friend had to move for work.

Where does friend 3 park?

My frat house was like this but with one house. Didn't get old.

Because it's 10 miles from public transit and Friend 3 has to bum rides from everyone?

Who is out here with that many friends??

Grove Street, home.

Everyone's dream =

I'm fine with this considering my house is not in the picture.

Slop.

That aside, I choose friend 3. The only one without a driveway. Though if I did have a garage, I could establish my workshop there, hm...

It would basically turn your friends into family. For better or for worse.

I've seen people rag on the suburbia of it all but no one has questioned the premise. If the suburban housing was the premise, then it shouldn't matter who the neighbors are and the length of time would be irrelevant: you just wouldn't want to live in the suburbs.

The premise is implying something about the idea of living by friends is masking the inherent problems with the situation. And that mask would fall off after some time had passed. But, if you don't like the suburbs as 90% of y'all felt compelled to make clear, why would that be suppressed and only resurface after time passes?

Why would living by friends turn into a nightmare scenario? If you can't stand being neighbors with them, then I'd argue you guys weren't really friends. Or you have novel ideas about how much you have to interact with neighbors.

This looks like some sort of desolate wasteland cosplaying as living space

Who has seven friends?!?

No it doesn't. We all grouped together and bought a second group home to use as a shop closer to our home track.

It's an absolute blast.