The overblown hate on socialist housing blocks never fails to aggravate me. Westerners will look at an image of an Eastern European apartment block on a cloudy day, that’s just existing there and housing hundreds of people, then proceed to circlejerk crocodile tears about how oppressive 1984 totalitarian it looks like. I guess I should just go homeless together with all my friends and relatives so that assholes on reddit are not visually oppressed by evil communist architecture.
Damn,removed,you live like this?
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A yellow filter would be better
I actually like the uniformity from an aesthetic standpoint, but it would be much more space-effective to have apartment buildings (with thick walls, please) instead, especially when there are so many houseless people
<small>and lawns are bourgeois</small>
I can see the freedom
How the hell anyone get back there drunk after party and do not wake up half of the street? How do you even know it’s your street?
Wait, they probably really do that. This or driving drunk.
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Housing is a racket in the states, given the choice between living as a neoslave debt holder in a state as backwards as the United States in an overpriced cookie cutter house that I can’t afford in a neighborhood with violence or a segregated suburb vs living in the USSR where decent housing is guaranteed and I can just focus on enjoying life. I think that’s an obvious choice.
As someone who’s not from the US I will never understand why many homes there are basically just large cardboard boxes. I have a friend who lives in the US and they were telling me stories about how they can sometimes hear random animals in between the walls of the house they’re in. And how every other day they get woken up by the sound of someone making food in the kitchen (which is on the other side of the building).
Yet somehow these houses are really expensive, even if they’re falling apart due to decades of poor maintenance. Even if they’re full of asbestos and/or mold.
And how every other day they get woken up by the sound of someone making food in the kitchen (which is on the other side of the building).
This is actually the problem of socialist buildings too. Also loud neighbours.
But still, i look at the american houses, and wonder, how long do they even last? And what about heat in winters?
I’ve seen footage before of people moving furniture and accidentally bumping into a wall (which tends to happen) but instead of the wall just holding up (like you would expect) it just gave in like cardboard and now there was a huge hole.
Why are these oversized cardboard boxes even a thing at all? Have those colonists forgotten how to build proper houses just how they’ve forgotten how to get to the moon?
My mother told me some things about life before the fall of Eastern European socialism back when I was a teen and knew nothing about politics. Among the things she mentioned as having been better back then was guaranteed housing and employment. It didn’t really strike me at that time because I lacked the understanding necessary to realize how important that was, but holy shit it hits different now.
When putting into perspective how bad it is to just get a roof over your head under our current conditions, I guess I can understand where the line of thinking parodied by the OP could come from. In comparison, getting a basic need met without going into a 20+ year debt appears too good to be true, so people start looking for a “catch”.
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