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https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/3-Ludlow-Rd-Quincy-MA-02171/59216095_zpid/?mmlb=g,0

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4808-Lewiston-Rd-Niagara-Falls-NY-14305/31436695\_zpid/

Seems to be a great location for price if you ask me. 5 minutes from the falls and toronto isnt that far from here.

The gas station was contacted and police responded to the scene.

kind of reminiscent of a lasagna but with red sauce and cheese its really nice

Part 1

To be clear up front: I'm not even mad that I have to drive everywhere. I want to have my car and be able to drive wherever I'm going. The real issue is the complete lack of opportunities, the dead livelihood, and the fact that this state is unaffordable unless you bought a nice colonial 10 years ago. Paired with a hostile, dead suburban environment that makes it difficult to just exist.

The outer sprawl is just endless single-family homes built into hills that are completely unsustainable without the invention of the car. People out in the outskirts enjoy the "peace and quiet" (I wouldn't call it rural, all the amenities are nearby via car). If you're in Greenwich with a beautiful mansion, you probably don't care if you have to take your Range Rover or Porsche everywhere. It's standard here to think that this car-centric life is perfectly acceptable.

But so many of these older neighborhoods are the absolute worst offenders of unwalkable nonsense. It's like they decided decades ago that walking is optional. Trying to leave your house for a walk is a hopeless exercise. No sidewalks on the backroads or main roads. You're literally climbing blind hills worrying about a car flying up from behind you because there's zero room. It's an unacceptable way to live.

But I will say that the state was really kind enough to spend taxpayer money to improve walkability for us, which is to pave more crosswalks that connect to nothing!

Honestly, at least any neighborhood in Texas has so much room that even their wide stroads feel effectively safer than what we deal with here.

The traffic itself is laughably bad at the most random times of day.

It's a nice day out and I want to hit the gym or go shopping. The fastest way to get to either planet fitness or walmart is always through the interstate. There are no backroad alternatives because of how poorly connected everything is. There were multiple occasions where I just gave up on going out entirely (or wait till later at night) because of how ridiculous the traffic situation gets.

There is so much life and activity down in NYC and even most of New Jersey. CT's towns are the worst offenders of the so-called NYC suburbs (Fairfield county's proximity to NYC is always a selling point realtors use). But obviously never feels like you're actually near that big city when your day-to-day life is existing in this unwalkable environment with an insane wealth gap, a state that's literally filled with nothing.

There is one thing that excites me, and that's the prospect of moving out of here soon. Try to prove otherwise. There's nothing to do here bro.

Genuine masterpiece but steep price. Whether its worth it for Philly thats up to your judgement.

Worth noting that other nice homes exist for a much lower cost in case downtown Philly interests you, like this townhome and this Victorian house. This one too

Wondering today what our city would look like if all of these large scale projects hadn’t been cancelled/abandoned over the years. Dallas has, at many times over the last century, been in a position to become a globally recognized metropolis, but it seems the plans for these large scale upgrades don’t always make it to fruition. The projects shown in this post are only scratching the surface, too. In reality, there are dozens and dozens more towers, developments, advancements, parks, plazas, monorails, all proposed, and some even breaking ground before losing funding or footing.

Pictured here, in order:

1.) Proposed 100-Story downtown tower. Would have been one of the tallest buildings on the planet at the time of completion.

2.) The original twin tower plan for Fountain Place in downtown. Fountain place stands alone today.

3.) Victory Tower in Victory Park by American Airlines Center

4.) Griffin-Square tower in downtown, would have been 60 floors and would still stand today as one of the tallest buildings in the city

5.) Cityplace West was the originally planned twin tower to the current Cityplace East tower. The twin tower project was meant to be a gateway to downtown from the north of Dallas with a sky bridge connecting the two across the freeway below.

6.) Harwood Forum development was a mixed-use project with multiple planned skyscrapers near where the Perot museum stands today. These towers were deemed far above the height restriction limits due to proximity to Love Field.

7.) 1900 Pacific was a planned tower in downtown that would stand today as one of the tallest buildings in Dallas. This project is unique because of the relatively small plot that it would be built on, making the tower very slim.

8.) The original plans for Bank of America tower in downtown (currently, the tallest tower in all of north Texas) included a twin tower project as well. Much like the other scrapped twin tower projects in the city, funding ran short before the construction of the second tower could start.

9.) The Downtown DART D2 project was very recently cancelled. This would have run an underground subway line from Victory park, through downtown and into Deep Ellum, hitting part of downtown that aren’t as close to the current Dart lightrail lines (which would stay functional as they are now). Turnstile-entry would be required to enter stations and payment would have been collected at entry of the station.

10.) MULTIPLE projects concerning the Trinity River have been proposed over the last century, from turning it into a deep canal and river port to turning it into an urbanized riverwalk similar to the Chicago or San Antonio riverwalks. Today, more plans are shaping up to add trails and parks to the riverfront but many more ambitious plans have come and gone over the years.

What do you think about these cancelled Dallas projects? How do you think the city would look/feel today if all of these had come to fruition?

Walking to metlife is illegal because you’d have to cross multiple lanes of highway to get to the stadium from any direction.

Telling people to “just drive” to metlife instead of risking getting run over trying to cross a highway isn't rocket science. The problem is that we built this insanely car-dependent hellscape in the first place. None of this had to be designed this way. We bulldozed normal human-scale towns and replaced them with endless roads, parking lots, and highways where doing something as basic as walking somewhere feels suicidal.

The irony of this place being in the NYC metro, the place Americans constantly point to as proof that the US can do density, transit, and walkability.

Somehow people act like that’s normal. Like the choices are either own a car or navigate an overstressed public transit system ($100 nj transit tickets/rideshare dynamic pricing nonsense) it's the only option for most people before or after a game. That’s not freedom, that’s a complete failure of infrastructure and city planning.

Design public spaces almost entirely around cars and then act annoyed when pedestrians exist at all!

Price is $2.9M

But if you had a choice between this or the $3M McMansion in TX I think its a rather easy decision..

Every single turn is a completely different view in ny...

This was from 2022. It was a very active border crossing with many vehicles, cargo trucks, and pedestrians crossing daily especially from the Iranian side. Not sure what the border situation is today.

Brand new mchomes in Texas. Damn near perfect. Taking out even more lawn would be chefs kiss.

Anybody else intrigued by these beauts?

Edit: somebody found the link for the white house. Bless their heart

3.5 million asking price per redfin. Sold price unknown.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1816-Riviera-Ln-Southlake-TX-76092/450300102_zpid/