u/devletmillet

This has to be the most ridiculous and unnecessary change I could think of. There's zero logical reason to have this level of security when there already was 2 step verification and that worked fine for all of my years as a student.

I graduated in August this year and now I have no way to view my transcripts because its not letting me connect to the VPN. My netid and password still goes through but authentication for the VPN fails.

Saying that this is a major inconvenience is an understatement.

Still not perfect by any means given the weather, pollution, and other debated issues. But for the most part the city has a development pattern where almost every urban neighborhood is mixed-use by design. No matter where you are, there will almost always be food options of every major cuisine, shops/grocery for anything that you'd need, and other activities and amenities that generally add to the vibe.

You might still need to get on the highway for any slightly longer journey, but that’s just how it is in any other developed nation outside of an urban core where highway culture is also prevalent.

Toll Brothers markets themselves as a luxury homebuilder and they've built projects all across the east coast and the Midwest (These pictures are from Connecticut, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania)

From what I've seen, they do not specialize in building massive subdivisions, they build at a smaller scale of 100-200 units at most to try to simulate a community feel (or really just to profit off the smallest lot of land that they can find)

They sell single family homes and attached condos/condominiums at marked up list prices, (but you'll find way more condos being built simply because they are cheaper to build and to cram more units) Any SFH option is listed as a premium, top of the line option.

All in all, these kind of communities are the textbook definition of density with zero of the benefits

The sidewalks merely serve as a decoration, because there's nowhere you can actually go outside of the community since they always abruptly end at the entrance, disconnected from anything beyond the development lines.

They often plan their developments to be built right next to an interstate and/or state highway in remote areas outside of a town center, so that they can always advertise the home location's proximity to the highway to make it easy for commuting to work and also to get to literally anywhere else, because there's nothing that's walkable from your home.

Toll brothers; and probably any other builder in its class, is betting that every future homeowner who even comes to tour a property in their middle of nowhere location and eventually sign a mortgage already owns a car, and 99% of the time, they’re right. Because driving is so easy and deeply ingrained in American life, car dependency is rarely seen as something that would concern a potential resident. The idea of having to drive for every single little thing, only to return to the same unit at the end of each day for as long as you live there, is considered perfectly normal and barely given a second thought.

If something happens in the future where car ownership becomes exceedingly difficult, then all of a sudden, the entire concept of building a dense housing scheme right next to a highway becomes economically stupid and disastrous.

So now the question is, why the fk would I want to pay $750k for a condo to have to share walls, pay a high HOA, sacrifice a front yard and backyard to have zero sense of privacy, and no walkability at all?

The absence of any kind of private outside space for yourself is actually insane when you're already paying so much, I don't ask for a massive lot of additional land, but merely an area to just exist in peace and for kids to be able to roam and play. Driving to a park even if its 2 miles away is not ideal, adds mental workload if you simply just wanted to go for a walk, and just sounds in poor taste to even suggest that as the only alternative.

I understand the debate against single family homes entirely, but these kind of developments make the case for dense housing look really bad. And to be completely honest, these condos make any single family home with your own land, privacy, and vegetation look like a luxury enclave that will always be worth so much more in $ on paper.

It's a missed opportunity where these exact units would be amazing when built inside of an actual city, but it's just a reality that homebuilders even at the luxury level will always chase profits over practical urban design.

The final boss of cheap housing

Located within a small town called Nakatsugawa, which is a beautiful area with mountains, waterfalls and scenic roads.

Unfortunately, Nakatsugawa does not have bullet train service, however it is still served by high-speed express trains to go south towards Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and east towards Tokyo.

You could also buy a cheap locally made Toyota to get around

https://realestate.co.jp/en/forsale/view/1406386

Specifically Bay Ridge Brooklyn but still a decent location.

2 floors + basement and the backyard is actually your parking space. But the entire city would be your backyard anyways.

372 92nd St Unit 1B, Brooklyn, NY 11209 | MLS# 504037 | Redfin

*From the perspective of urban design, quality of life, housing diversity, and architecture, there's simply no other place in the country like it

Located within a large metro area of Winston-Salem and Greensboro

1hr 20 min from Charlotte

1hr 30 min from Raleigh

Drivable distance to several state parks in the Appalachian mountains

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4889-Baux-Mountain-Rd-Winston-Salem-NC-27105/69532943\_zpid/?

3100sqft

1 hr from Pittsburgh

1hr 15 min from Cleveland

3 hr 30min from Detroit

4 hr 30 min from Toronto

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2318-Selma-Ave-Youngstown-OH-44504/34842016_zpid/

Pretty much all of the bay area/Silicon Valley is notoriously unaffordable, so I was surprised to see that the outer cities about 45 min to 1hr 30 min (traffic dependent) from downtown San Francisco are significantly cheaper and single-family homes in the $450-800k range are widely available.

Is the area circled still considered to be part of the San Francisco metro area? New York's suburbs/exurbs in NJ, CT and Hudson valley are 50+ miles from the city but are still considered to be part of the metro.

Nature nearby: Pocono mountains, Delaware Water Gap, etc

30 min from Scranton, PA

1 hr 30 min from Binghamton NY

2 hr from NYC Manhattan

2 hr 45 min from Philly

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/80-Draco-Dr-Lake-Ariel-PA-18436/325726795_zpid/

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