I wonder if they have have decent back yards as a result.

So much wrong, only starting with the garages. 3 cars spilling out of one driveway, unkempt yards, the dark narrow passage between garages to most of the front doors. Yikes.

That's depressing.

Not everyone has the luxury of 12 acres in the Carolina backwoods. Still, there are better approaches.

It deadens my soul. :)

They have no backyard to speak of.

This was the only row of homes like it in the development from what I saw (we didn't tour the entire neighborhood). We were turning around in the development and these were the first things we saw....not very inviting! We drove around a little more b/c we thought maybe they had more space on the other side or even a second entry, but no, just plain walls with a few windows and no real yard space.

The rest of the homes were pretty standard -- a mix of single family on small lots and townhomes similar to what Worthy posted.

[I made my DH stop so I could take a picture to post here b/c they were the most extreme case I had ever seen!]

The only one the owners seemed to be keeping up was the one on the left end.

I guess when one is trying to cram as many houses as possible on a small piece of land, this is what happens. Is there no town planning board? Are there no zoning laws? Probably not...and that's NOT a good thing at all.

Just awful....

I'd hate to come home drunk after midnight and try to figure out where to park...(just a joke folks)!

These are probably in a heavily zoned and regulated area. As soulless as those are they are an efficient way to achieve high population density where each unit has a private entrance and attached parking. The joke is everyone talks about having a big yard and I can say from personal experience the vast majority of people who live in the detached, large yard version of the above pulls into the garage and walks into the house from there just like the above. Not a soul in the yard. I take that back, there's some poor Mexican doing the yardwork and maybe a few kids behind a fence at the pool. Just as soulless just pricier and with more environmental impact.

I do have a female friend who was arrested for a break and enter/ trespass for going into the wrong house in an environment like this and the charges were dropped. But she was then charged with public intoxication.

These look like rental units to me. Reminded of the thread about building as cheap as you can in order to make more money on rent...

The problem isn't the snouts, the problem is that every single one of them looks exactly the same. Down to color.

I'd hate to come at any time and try to figure out where to park. This is when Hunter Orange paint comes in handy.

Guess which one's mine?

If they rent or own them, I am sure it's all they can afford. Aren't we blessed that we are able to build our houses? But I do agree, they are butt ugly.

The intent of this post was not to criticize low income earners, etc. I was pointing out the "snout garage" taken to the extreme.

cpartist

What a wonderful homage!

*****

Orange snouts can boast this prestigious ancestor.

I was in the Bo-Kaap district when I was in Cape Town. I forgot about those. LOL

If it's colour we're into, don't forget Canada.

^^^I love that name Jellybean Row! It's pretty descriptive :)

I thought it was referring to the occupants.

The province of Newfoundland & Labrador is also well known for its colourful place names.

The developers try their very best to build every single new home around here just like that. It's how they make the maximum amount of profits for themselves. If you don't have a glut of soulless, high-density housing where you live, rest assured that it's coming. :( Evidently, it's the future.

Honestly, I'd rather live in a high-rise or a large building with a lobby, if it were surrounded by greenery or you could look out your windows and see something other than the inside of your neighbor's house. They way they are building now, it's just a sprawl of ugliness and they use up all the green space. I won't even get into how they insist on lighting up the night sky with a bazillion street lights, so it's as bright as day and no one can see the stars at night anymore.

More and more, they just cram everyone into sprawling developments of soulless high-density housing with no room for greenery, no yards for the kids to play in, nowhere enough parking, narrow streets, tons of streetlights, etc...then, we wonder why so many peels suffer from depression, why so many kids are now overweight, etc. :(

We can blame tax-greedy municipalities for most of this problem. I don't blame developers for squeezing out more profit as long as people are buying.

Or blame winter snowfall. Would you rather shovel heavy snow from in front of a garage close to the street, or take 5 times as long shovelling snow all the way back to the garage in back?

Front garages are very popular in The north. Where would you put all the snow if you had a long driveway? Around here, if it falls in November, it's still around in March!

It's not the future in my town. Our zoning code specifically prohibits front facing garages that protrude beyond the front facade of the house. They must be set back a certain distance (can't remember how much,)

Buehl,

yea, we understand, but it is fun to laugh at some of the weird construction. I like cpartists rendering.

loonlake when you can't even see the front door because of the garage, that's a problem.

Honestly- in that subdivision, I'd just as soon see the garage UNDER the main part of the house (i.e. the house brought FORWARD to the garage). Same amount to shovel, but not an appendage. AND the garage door can be a lesser feature of the entire front facade. Obviously the problem then is potentially less first floor square footage - but I do think that it could be overcome with a single story in the BACK since the roof sq footage would be the same. The problem is solvable - but too many lack creativity.