Mickey7@lemmy.world to memes@lemmy.world · 1 month agoAnyone miss all the colors?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square161linkfedilinkarrow-up1851arrow-down130
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minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up11·1 month agoDrive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes. I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry. Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
minus-squareaesthelete@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·1 month agoReminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 month agoThat was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoIn my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
minus-squareharrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 month agoThat’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
minus-squaretoynbee@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agoI hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
minus-squareIronBird@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 month agothat has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now
Drive the West Davis highway in Utah, north of Salt Lake City, and most of what you’ll see is cookie-cutter McMansions in the same color schemes.
I saw one larger house that looked like an unpaid intern copied and pasted the same set of rooms multiple times onto the standard front entry.
Cheaply built, soulless architecture, tiny lots, on ground that was lake bed less than a hundred years ago.
Reminds me of one of the funniest articles I’ve read: https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-44/the-intellectual-situation/why-is-everything-so-ugly/
That was a fun read. I bookmarked it.
In my town there are two bright pink houses. I love 'em.
That’s cool. I don’t think I’ve seen one ever.
I hadn’t, either, before I started visiting this town.
that has always been the american way, upton sinclair was writing about this shit over close to a century ago now