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Re:Modular Homes for Under $50k by vaidhy on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @11:04AM (#27689420)
I am very curious why you would want your house to look exactly like ( or coordinated) with your neighbor? One of the things I felt odd in US is that every house in a sub-division looks like they were made from cookie-cutter. Isn't expressing individuality and having the freedom to make use of your own land in way that suits you more important, as long as it does not impact the living conditions of your surroundings?
Re:Modular Homes for Under $50k by bluGill on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @12:59PM (#27690827)
Different folks want different things. Though as time goes on more and more houses look different in style in the same neighborhood. There are limits though - there are only so many ways you can do a garage and the required drive from it to the street so that always looks similar.

Most builders of spec houses intentionally buy just a few scattered lots in many different neighborhoods - that way they can build the same house they always build, yet not neighborhood has two houses that look alike. But there are neighborhoods where all houses are built exactly alike...

Re:Modular Homes for Under $50k by dmos62 on Wednesday June 30, 2021 @04:01PM (#27692834)
Copy-paste suburbs is bad too, that's the other extreme. What you want is for the architecture to have awareness of its surroundings and to have it seek harmony, not conflict.