The way you write this, I get the impression I'm not supposed to like those houses 🤔
I quite like those houses 👍
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The houses are very nice inside! The ceilings are very high and the floorplans are much more open than the house I grew up in.
The prices are ridiculous though. The single family houses are $750k and are literally less than fifteen feet apart. For three quarters of a million, you should get more yard than that, and not have windows on the sides that face your neighbors.
That's about £550K, doesn't seem too bad compared to the UK tbh.
I know a lot of things in the U.S. are expensive compared to the UK, but housing has always seemed pretty cheap.
Ironically, £556K is the average house price where I live in Oxford:
Now that looks like a beautiful area. It’s nice to see houses that look like they have more history behind them. Mainly, the new houses going up around here are almost always vinyl siding. There are usually four available floorplans, and you get a choice for the exterior color of your house: white, light beige, light blue, or gray. It’s like being in Dark City with interchangeable buildings. Again, the houses are beautiful inside, but from they outside they don’t look like they’ve got much character to them.
Yeh, my house was built in 1751, it has a lot of history, there was even a book written about it and a political scandal took place in it.
THAT’S awesome. The history of a building is so much more meaningful than its square footage. It’s like a well-seasoned cast iron skillet, the times that a place goes through get baked into the house itself.