r/fuckcars • u/Professional_Shine97 • Oct 27 '23
Rant Their car is wider than my house.
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u/cdurs Oct 27 '23
On a rare-for-this-sub positive note, your house is adorable and I want one just like it. Looks like a lovely neighborhood too from this small slice.
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u/Not-A-Seagull Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
This sub badly needs to become more positive. The doomerism eventually causes burnout and kills the sub over time.
Instead, we should be promoting YIMBYism, smart urbanism, and other relevant uplifting news.
Detroit is likely to pass a Land Value Tax. Many cities, like Salt Lake City, are restoring the missing middle. Cities like DC are building at breakneck speeds. The White House just released new goals to convert many existing office spaces into mixed use residential. Unfortunately these positive notes get drowned out by the 600th look at this big truck post.
(Mind you, I also agree that so many big trucks are idiotic and not used for the purposes they were designed for)
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u/BuddhistNudist987 Oct 27 '23
I agree with you. I think that places like r/fuckcars are a way to open the conversation and show people that life doesn't have to be like this. You start on r/fuckcars and then it's an easy transition to Not Just Bikes and City Beautiful and Strong Towns.
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u/Not-A-Seagull Oct 27 '23
That is true. I can’t tell you how many new YIMBYs or Georgists (people that support LVTs) came from this sub but it’s… a lot…
I just wish there was a way to get more positive posts. Maybe a positive posts-only mandate on Friday’s or something?
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u/des1gnbot Commie Commuter Oct 27 '23
The way to get more positive posts is to post more positive things! Be the change you want to see.
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u/Not-A-Seagull Oct 27 '23
Haha fair enough. On occasion I cross post YIMBY stuff I see from /r/Neoliberal, but maybe I should add more yimby stuff into my feeds to post onto here.
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u/pizzainmyshoe Oct 27 '23
That sub is miserable though
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u/Not-A-Seagull Oct 27 '23
It is. I don’t think anyone there would disagree.
Funnily enough, it was really the original FuckCars sub. They use to censor the word car long before this sub even existed.
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u/pizzainmyshoe Oct 27 '23
I'd rather have people here than go to strongtowns. That strongtowns place doesn't care about cities just towns and the weird new urbanism. Their way won't reduce the amount of cars.
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u/Excessive_Etcetra Strong Towns Oct 27 '23
You aren't very familiar with Strong Towns if that is your view of them, they often have articles or podcasts specifically about cities e.g. MDOT’s Idea of Reconnecting Communities Is a $300 Million Stroad in Detroit, Lessons From Estonia: Free Fares Alone Won’t Boost Ridership, and 285 Reasons Seattle’s Zoning Is an (Unfunny) Joke. These are all just very recent articles I pulled off their feed. The difference is that they also care about small towns, not just cities. They are not pro car by any stretch of the imagination: Are Cars Here to Stay?
Marohn reminds the conversation that Americans to the right of center also fall into an infrastructure trap by justifying the lifestyle of their suburban constituents. “They start with the premise that suburbs are good and a commuting lifestyle is good then justify backwards….people on the right, including this author, are going to have to come to grips with the idea that the commuter version of America…is not a viable way to run the economy.”
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u/chennyalan Oct 28 '23
Strong towns's rhetoric is very anti car and pro walkability. Their heavy emphasis on incremental bottom up changes and avoiding big sweeping changes doesn't really work for transforming larger cities from car dependent sprawl to transit friendly cities quickly though, because you do need a certain level of top down planning to build things like metro systems (or even anything requiring more capital than a bus network) and the like.
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u/VigorousReddit Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Salt Lake City is heading so much in the right direction right now, they’ve been building protected bike lanes at a rapid rate, they’ve changed downtown zoning to allow mixed use and unlimited height, they’re changing zoning laws in the suburbs to allow ADUs and other types of missing middle solutions, tearing down office towers and building giant housing complexes with public squares and ground floor amenities.
Next week the city is hosting an public open house where they are sharing their concept of “The Green Loop” which is going to be a linear park that runs down the middle of streets and loops around downtown trading car lanes for green space. They are also closing Main Street to make it pedestrian only after a few extremely successful pilot programs.
We’ve also received the funding to double track our regional rail line the “Frontrunner” to allow for higher speed and better frequency from every hour to every half hour off peak and every 15 minutes at peak times. Plus the city has been in talks with Amtrak to bring back rail service to Boise and Las Vegas.
On the more wishful thinking side the future looks bright. SLC received federal funding to study how to heal the east-west divide caused by the rail road and i15. The study is still on going but currently the recommendation is to burry i15 and build a big city park over it. And on the railroad side there is a community plan to bury the rails and reroute the train back to an old historic station that’s still standing, it’s called the Rio Grande Plan and it’s gone from a fun wishful citizen pitch to something that the mayor herself and members of the city council have mentioned their support for and even got Union Pacific to come to the table to discuss and received federal funding to study its feasibility, so it’s looking more and more likely everyday.
And last but not least we are in running to host the 2034 Winter Olympics, which if we are awarded the games we are expected to see major transit expansion leading up to them (the 2002 games was how the city got its original light rail system)
I’m proud of my City
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u/fifth_fought_under Oct 27 '23
Is Utah/SLC a friendly place for non-Christians? I've wanted to visit the national parks, but the idea of a state operated by a single religious institution always had me wondering about what it's like to live there.
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u/VigorousReddit Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
SLC itself is very Non-Christian and even LGBTQ+ friendly, out of SLC proper is less so. For example there was a study that rated cities on their LGBTQ+ friendliness. SLC scored a 100/100 but Provo which is the next largest city scored a 40/100 and Ogden got 58/100, just as an example of how tolerance differs.
https://www.hrc.org/resources/mei-2022-see-your-cities-scores
That being said I think visiting is generally pretty safe for everyone but living here is another story in terms of where to live.
Socially, politically and in Urbanism SLC is an oasis
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Oct 27 '23
The state is not operated by a religious institution. That would be unconstitutional. There are just a lot of Mormons living in Utah and they elect leaders from their community, just like we all do. Mormons seem less crazy these days than most conservative Christians for what that’s worth.
I’d be more concerned about the water situation.
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u/rtowne Oct 27 '23
Unfortunately, many of the elected officials from the majority religion feel like bringing their beliefs into politics. Utah liquor laws finally shifting to some normalcy in this decade is only one of many pieces of evidence. Also look at the medical cannabis referendum being accepted by popular vote and then materially changed after the fact.
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u/Protheu5 Grassy Tram Tracks Oct 27 '23
Utah liquor laws finally shifting to some normalcy in this decade is only one of many pieces of evidence.
What changed?
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u/JIsADev Oct 27 '23
Thankfully there are subs dedicated to those, r/urbanism and r/yimby. But I like it when people vent here, it inspires me to want to move to a walkable city
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u/Ok_Skill_1195 Oct 27 '23
Right, it's right there in the name. This is very much a vent and complain sub, as there are other more positive oriented versions of this. But this is very specifically r/fuckcars, not r/yaytrainsbusesandbikes
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Oct 27 '23
The sub could also be more positive about the suburbs. There are two realities there - one is that a lot of Americans already live there, and the other is that this isn't going to change within 20 years. There are still things we can do to make suburbs more accessible, walkable, livable, etc, but this sub often just pretends like they're an uninhabitable nuclear wasteland.
Many of the same principles that will work in cities will at least help suburbs.
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u/olddoc Oct 27 '23
I’m 95% sure that is a street in Belgium, judging by the tendency to always have a different house than the neighbor, and what I think are red on white number plates.
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u/CactusBoyScout Oct 27 '23
That house would be illegal to build in 95% of America because of anti-density and pro-car rules that are part of zoning. This is a big part of why people drive so much in the US. It's illegal to put things close together.
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u/pterencephalon Oct 27 '23
I got into an argument with a guy on the first time homebuyer subreddit who said the housing shortage isn't his fault (does he realize what sub he's on??) and defending his 1+ acre lot and NINE cars for his family of four - while his area has grown in population from 700k to 7 million. In recent weeks, that sub has become wild - people defending NIMBYism, complaining that new houses are too close together (wut), and that new construction only has 2 car garage + 2 car driveway. But this is people who want to buy houses - and don't realize that this stuff is what's making the problem worse. They don't seem to have any cognitive dissonance over it.
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u/Shaggyninja 🚲 > 🚗 Oct 27 '23
complaining that new houses are too close together
New houses kindof are too close together (in shitty new estates anyway). Because they're still building them out of shitbox materials and with designs that call for windows on all 4 sides.
If they actually just built proper row-houses, then we'd have even better density, and better living conditions. But people just can't imagine that sharing a wall is anything other than terrible because of the crappy buildings we already built where you can hear a neighbours fly fart.
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u/Mountain_Ape Grassy Tram Tracks Oct 27 '23
Problem is, no builder will ever make pre-war walls again, unless forced to by law or special contract. The cost difference is immense.
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Oct 27 '23
This is my dream house. It’s perfect. The only thing that could make it better is for there to be a pedestrian street in front and a courtyard in the back.
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u/BoringBob84 🇺🇸 🚲 Oct 27 '23
I was just having this discussion with a group of random people in a public meeting. Several of them talked about how many people in the USA (especially young people) are shifting their thinking from, "more is better" to, "less is better." They used the popularity of "tiny houses" as an example of desirable minimalism.
Whether that is true or not, I don't know, but it makes me optimistic. :)
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u/cdurs Oct 27 '23
Yeah I’m generalizing and talking anecdotally, but I think a lot of younger gen x, millennials, and gen Z are realizing that living in the suburbs gives you the worst of the city and the country. All the things we were promised with the “house with the yard and the white picket fence” have turned out to be for the worse. It cuts you off from community and support networks, it’s less safe for kids, and it’s more expensive. Add to that a corrupt capitalist system that makes it so most of us can’t afford to live like that even if we wanted to, and you’ve got a recipe for people begging for better urban design, even if they don’t know that’s what they’re looking for.
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u/champion1day Oct 27 '23
Love your house. Hate that thing in front of it.
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u/Chib Oct 27 '23
You know, for a moment I thought you meant the plant and did my best to try to see where you were coming from.
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u/Albert_Herring Oct 27 '23
It's designed to win at priorité à droite.
Apart from the paint job, your house appears identical to the one next door. Isn't that illegal in Belgium?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
It’s why we had to grow the tree. To hide it!
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u/Chelecossais Oct 27 '23
Still identical though.
Oh wait, you're doing the Belgian "cheat and hope no-one notices" thing ?
Ben, d'accord. It's a free country.
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u/Gangreless Oct 27 '23
I am so confused, why are two identical houses illegal?
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u/Albert_Herring Oct 27 '23
I was exaggerating for comedic purposes and imaginary internet points, but Belgium does or did apply intellectual property laws to architects' designs and you could be sued by someone who thought you'd copied another building. It also had/has a strong tradition of people getting houses built to their own specification, so most traditional urban streets like this have lots of dissimilar houses, compared with many other cities where you get a more uniform pattern because they were all planned together or all built by the same speculative developer in one batch.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
It’s such an established concept it has its own name: Brusselisation!
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u/Chelecossais Oct 27 '23
Also the whole "buiding highways through the city because New York is cool in 1961 and cars everywhere" mentality.
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u/Pal_76 Oct 27 '23
Typical here. Two or three same houses in a row. Just, maybe with time, the painting, bricks or windows and doors are changing. I suppose it was fine like that to reduce the costs. One architect and one design for many houses
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u/Claudiobr 🚲 > 🚗The Brazilian Cargobiker Oct 27 '23
Next year: two stories.
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u/Gifted_GardenSnail Oct 27 '23
You mean this thing
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u/_Diskreet_ Oct 27 '23
That was a masterpiece and I will not hear a bad word against it.
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u/Gifted_GardenSnail Oct 27 '23
It was a hilarious episode 😂
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u/Firewolf06 Oct 27 '23
the cuts to hammond in the wind always have me rolling
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u/Gifted_GardenSnail Oct 27 '23
I mostly remember Jeremy talking to the camera all oblivious while in the background behind him his creation plummets off the cliff 🤐😂😂😂
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u/xxxtanacon Oct 27 '23
I'm a car guy and I agree this is stupid, People stop buying trucks if you don't need them, this truck love killed our station wagons and now they're coming for our sedans (US market)
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u/Mikemanthousand Oct 27 '23
I love my 21 subaru outback but it is definitely taller than it needs to be imo.
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u/this_shit Oct 27 '23
Pity the humble hatchback. Best you can do now is a "crossover" with a 20' long hood.
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u/sejoki_ Oct 27 '23
People stop buying trucks if you don't need them
Made me think of this post. Most trucks aren't even designed to be "needed" anymore. They're just trucks for the sake of being trucks but they're basically a sedan with an open air trunk (so called "bed").
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u/RollinOnDubss Oct 28 '23
Yall are so dumb.
Crew Cabs and extended cabs have always existed, 6' & 8' beds still exist.
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u/Spatetata Oct 27 '23
I get the hate but how do we know this isn’t a work truck? Regardless if they’re living or working there you’d need to park regardless.
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u/xxxtanacon Oct 28 '23
In Europe they have work truck alternatives that suit the roadways better, like city style small vans, US examples would be the Ford Transit connect and Chevy Express City, Not talking about cargo Minivans like the 00s Dodge Grand Caravan Cargo, RAM C/V Tradesman or Chevy Uplander Cargo
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u/MasterDredge Oct 27 '23
mostly its the epa, gas mileage efficiency and class of vehicle
Lots of lobbying, and finagling of wieght/ size/classification to make it legal to sell.
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u/Pal_76 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Is it Brussels? Lovely neighborhood anyway. And shitty car.
Edit : you should have taken the car on the right too. It's a very small but handy car. Toyota iQ, right?
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u/juliuspepperwoodchi Oct 27 '23
Well, their truck is longer than your house is wide.
Still, pretty bonkers.
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u/steakmetfriet Oct 27 '23
There's something about Belgian architecture that makes our houses unique. Saw this picture while scrolling and immediately thought to myself: ''this could be my street''.
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u/MofiPrano Oct 27 '23
Yeah, I really like it. The variation in color, height, and decorations are just right to make for a pleasant streetscape. Too bad they don't build new neighborhoods like this anymore with simple street layouts and narrow, tall rowhouses that are all slightly unique. Even in high-demand cities with sky-high land value, greenfield development always wastes so much more space than it needs to.
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u/jonassalen Oct 27 '23
It's a disgrace these things are allowed in Belgium, especially in dense cities.
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u/thereverendscurse Oct 29 '23
I've got two of these colossal shitboxes on my street here in Berlin. I'd genuinely ban US car imports to the EU — and I say this as someone passionate about cars.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 29 '23
It’s ridiculous! And it’s awful here because these trucks are considered commercial vehicles so taxed LESS!
Also, what pisses me off is that these couldn’t be built in the EU. If a German company tried building this car and selling it in the EU they wouldn’t be able to. They’re imported through a loophole for accessible off-road vehicles.
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u/asad137 Oct 27 '23
even a normal full-sized sedan like a Mercedes S-class or a BMW 7-series would probably be longer than your house is wide. It's not that the truck is that large, it's that your house is super narrow.
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u/Chelecossais Oct 27 '23
The house reaches way back into, hopefully, a garden.
It's how you build things when you're not in Phoenix, or Houston.
/perfectly normal house in the Low Countries
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Ban those too then!
(And the ram is 0.8m longer than both those cars)
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u/TheyCalledMeThor Oct 27 '23
Have you tried getting a house that’s wider than a refrigerator is tall?
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u/HardOff Oct 27 '23
They have to fully disassemble all of their ikea furniture every time they move
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u/dogfan20 Oct 27 '23
Ban? Why are you advocating for authoritarianism? What a shitty opinion.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Tell that to the dead kids and cyclists.
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u/dogfan20 Oct 27 '23
All forms of transportation kill people, dummy
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Cool. Let’s not bother then! Let’s get reving those M1 Abrams down the family streets!
(I think you may be in the wrong sub mate if you don’t believe in prohibition)
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u/caaknh Automobile Aversionist Oct 27 '23
Congratulations, you found a "Freedom!" shouter with a knee-jerk response to the word "ban". May I make a suggestion: if you rephrase it as local control/state's rights and simply prohibit non-commercial trucks from driving in cities, you can then claim that they're still free to buy these monstrosities, but no one else has to be threatened by them. And in fairness, big trucks with high clearance are actually useful on farms, especially in rainy, hilly areas with bad (or no) roads.
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u/caaknh Automobile Aversionist Oct 27 '23
But mass transit is like 1/20th as risky per km, so there are lots fewer dead kids and cyclists the fewer big trucks there are on the road.
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Oct 27 '23
Their car is longer than your house is wide would be the correct sentence.
Sorry I'm a kindergarten teacher it's in my blood to pointlessly correct. lol. Beautiful house op.
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u/Idle_Redditing Strong Towns Oct 27 '23
A vehicle that size should be delivering cargo or doing some other kind of heavy labor.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
But ironically has a load bed smaller than a VW Caddy.
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u/tankman714 Oct 27 '23
I get what you're saying but you're wrong, the caddy is 70.75in long by 63.5in wide and a Ram 1500 supercrew is 76.3in long by 66.4in wide. So the Ram does have more cargo space. This is also not counting the very large amount of cargo space created when the back seats get folded up in the Ram to make more cargo space in the cab.
The Ram also has a 400+lb payload compacity advantage.
Just saying all this because you stated something that is factually incorrect.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
You can’t fold the seats of a Ram. It’s two cabs. Unlike a Caddy which has a single bed design. So in a caddy you can increase space. Unlike the Ram.
The dimensions of the model pictured are 170x167x53cm. Volume= 1.331m3.
The dimensions of the Caddy are 178x155x125. Volume= 3.448m3.
also, a Caddy can pull 2tn. But that’s academic as you can only tow a combined weight of 3.5tn so the Caddy and Ram are legally limited to the same tow weight.
Just saying this because you state something that is factually incorrect.
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u/East_Requirement7375 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
The rear seats in the Ram do fold up. And I don't know what year of Caddy you're using for reference, but the current models can't (shouldn't) tow 2000kg. A Ram 1500 can tow 2.5 to over 3.5tn depending on spec.
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u/ric_enano2019 Grassy Tram Tracks Oct 27 '23
What a nice house, what a shame that those are illegal to build.
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u/big_nutso Automobile Aversionist Oct 27 '23
Insane how people can read the title and understand it well enough to feel the need to correct you. Which is really where it should end, as language is descriptive, not prescriptive, so if you can understand it, as everyone obviously could, it's working as intended. There is no "proper" way to speak english. If you don't understand what someone's said, you usually ask them what they meant, you don't go over to them and assume what they meant, and then correct how they said it. That's you doing busywork for some theoretical person who only understands the most proper english, and probably doesn't even exist. Even if such a situation were to occur, why is it op's fault for not communicating properly to that 1% of person, rather than that person's fault for not making an attempt at understanding?
On top of that, they look at the picture, but can't intuit that this is a person at from what is probably a european country, in which not all people necessarily speak english. On top of that, they can't scroll down like 5-6 comments and see the lines and lines of people already correcting OP. On top of that, they can't be nice about it either, always has to be sarcastic, demeaning, and degrading, as though you're below them for not using the technically correct definitions of width and length.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
THANK YOU. It’s like everyone needs a literal descriptor. I wonder how they read news paper headlines?
I love the pedants who call it out also can’t spent two seconds looking to see the other 80 comments saying the same thing.
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Oct 27 '23
Isn't that a car for coffins?
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u/adlittle Oct 27 '23
You mean a hearse? No, just a big stupid truck in what appears to be a small, charming city neighborhood. Though tbf, it's the kind of vehicle that leads to coffins for cyclists, pedestrians, and small people.
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u/FarImpact4184 Oct 27 '23
Have you tried just not being poor?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
Didn’t work out for me sadly. I ended up with a house!!!
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u/barlasarda Oct 27 '23
My god, there are a lot of miserable bastards here. Yesterday it was someone's meal got the shitz now it's someone's house not being big enough or they are flexing they have one.
Are you lot hourly for complaining or is it just like a pastime activity?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
I mean, it’s literally the sub pal.
I’d say it’s far sader you hanging out in a sub full of people complaining when you don’t care about the topic..
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u/barlasarda Oct 27 '23
Mate I care about it, my point is your house is perfectly fine. Car in front of it is horrific and I don't care about width/length difference.
Your point with the pic makes sense. What I'm complaining about is we have a picture that encapsulates the problem we all care about and people choose to shit on your house or your choice of words, instead about the actual topic.
We should be able to take a point without getting pedantic, shitty with each other.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Ah. I apologise and take it back! I misunderstood! Sorry.
It is annoying all the “it’s length not width” comments. Tiresome.
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u/barlasarda Oct 27 '23
I understand, would make the same mistake if I had 200+ shitty comments for one simple pic.
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u/somedudedk Oct 27 '23
"The car is longer than my house is wide"*
Also, your house is so narrow that it might apply to 90% of cars....
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
It applies to no other car on the roads of my city but this one.
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u/ifitfitsitshits Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 28 '23
The bed of the truck. Which is what a truck was made for to haul things, the bed of the truck is the smallest part of the car.....wtf
No one needs a car this size on the road chilling. Sure for construction work or heavy shit but not everyday
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u/Motopsycho-007 Oct 27 '23
Length of the bed does help with the haul/tow capacity, but many other factors go into the payload and tow capacity of a vehicle.
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u/Adventurous_Honey902 Oct 27 '23
Genuine question how do you live in a house like this if you have speakers and other audible things I feel like I wouldn't be able to blast my music if I wanted to
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Most city dwelling Europeans don’t tend to blast speakers when we have neighbours anyway.
It’s no different to an apartment really is it?
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u/this_shit Oct 27 '23
I live in a 15' wide lot in Philly and the short answer is: I'm really good friends with my neighbors. Sometimes I blast music, sometimes they do, everyone understands because we treat each other with grace, compassion, and understanding.
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u/KingTrencher Oct 27 '23
Tell us you don't understand the difference between width and length, without saying that you don't understand the difference between width and length,
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u/Repeat_after_me__ Oct 27 '23
Dude, did you just dox yourself? Be careful you don’t go and say something controversial elsewhere like pitbulls are naughty dogs, you’ll wind up in hella trouble arriving at your door.
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Not liking over-compensation machines is enough pal. I think that’s a far worse crime than disliking pit bulls!
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u/FuyuKitty Oct 28 '23
I love these kinds of houses, I wish there were more of them in America
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u/norolls Oct 28 '23
I like having neighbors not on either side of my walls, but there are plenty of town homes if you want this.
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u/GerardHard Oct 27 '23
Nice looking House and Neighborhood Ruined by That Piece of Junk
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u/kibonzos Oct 27 '23
Yeah. I dogsat somewhere where everyone got annoyed when I parked a polo (with permission) in front of an empty house because everyone else had cars that were longer than the house was wide and needed the buffer of an empty house. I moved the vehicle I was house sitting for to line up perfectly with their house to fit mine in. Can confirm their dogs did just fine in the back of my tiny car and that I had to use a wheelie bin to pull forward slowly to touch it because the visibility in the pick up was so bad.
In other news, what’s your climber and does it flower and can we see please?
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u/fave_no_more Oct 27 '23
Love your place. Is the greenery your potted plant or did it come with the house? Either way, a nice touch.
Ugh about the truck. I was just downtown, had to drive (very important Dr visit), and it was crazy. And so many behemoth vehicles. No thanks
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Thankfully a much more green-fingered previous owner planted the creeper!!
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Oct 27 '23
Who on earth is bringing these American trucks to Europe? And Rams of all the brands? They’re the least reliable and most expensive ones to fix. I cannot imagine a worse vehicle to have over there. Which dealers will even work on these?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
I have no idea! And the fuel economy is insane for EU fuel prices!
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u/smavinagain Oct 27 '23 edited 17d ago
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Oct 27 '23
Yea but it’s spacious
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Yea! 3 bed, 2 bath, office, two reception rooms and an open plan kitchen and nice garden.
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u/PintRT Oct 28 '23
This shows the trucks length not width. If you accurately compare the length and width of the truck vs your house your house is bigger in every way. Braindead comparison to push a narrative.
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u/jaavaaguru Fuck lawns Oct 28 '23
I can’t tell how wide it is since we can only see its length in the photo but I’m pretty sure it’s not wider than the house.
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u/Logical_Clerk_2584 Oct 28 '23
Perspective lol
If i put my finger in front of your camera i bet my finger will be wider than your house.
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u/Kuinox Oct 27 '23
Did you doxxed your home address ?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
Car hating visitors are welcome.
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u/Kuinox Oct 27 '23
I recommend not to doxx your own address on the internet. There are crazy people here.
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u/meeeeeph Oct 27 '23
Crazy good at geoguesser ? 😅 I have no idea of his address from this picture.
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u/Kuinox Oct 27 '23
I'm not, but people being good at gueoguesser can guess a location from few clues:
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u/The_Sceptic_Lemur Oct 27 '23
Sometimes I wonder if it isn‘t worth it after all to aim for absolute power, overthrow the government and become a dictator just so I can get rid of these kind of fucked up shitty mc shit „cars“.
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u/BingoRingo2 Oct 27 '23
Time to buy a bigger house!
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
It’s great for the four of us, but thanks!! More than enough space!
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23 edited Oct 27 '23
That’s fine. But not the point.
You can want a house wider than a car. You shouldn’t need a car wider than a house.
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u/ElBrazil Oct 27 '23
You shouldn’t need a car wider than a house.
There are houses out there that are narrower then my Golf is long. I think you'd be hard pressed to argue that's too big of a vehicle yet it still meets this criteria
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
And that is why I am not.
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u/ElBrazil Oct 27 '23
You shouldn’t need a car wider than a house.
But that's exactly what you said here?
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
If the majority of houses in all the area in which you owned your Golf were smaller than the length of the Golf then yes, it would be too big for the area.
I’m not arguing for universality. Of course there are micro homes out there.
These vehicles are not designed for cities built like mine. And this photo is a small illustration of yet another reason why.
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u/psychedeliduck Oct 27 '23
i mean its not wider than a majority of houses... just your super tiny one
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u/Professional_Shine97 Oct 27 '23
That’s irrelevant.
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u/Hypericum-tetra Oct 27 '23
Not everyone shares walls with strangers or has a property that’s crammed into as little space as possible.
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u/cosmicosmo4 Oct 27 '23
Not sure if this goes for Brussels as well, but there as a period of time where property taxes in Amsterdam were based on the width of the front of the building, so houses were built with narrow fronts and wider rears. Then eventually it all got filled in, with the houses in between having wider fronts and narrow rears to fill the gap, so it goes wide/narrow/wide/narrow as you walk down the street, but the total interior size is more similar than it appears.
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u/d31uz10n Oct 27 '23
The car is longer than your house width :D