Is suburban housing just large scale pod living?

[Santa Fe Swag]

All the houses are just cookie cutter models, the plants are all unnaturally pruned, and most of these neighborhoods are solely designed for the automobile leaving those without means of transportation stranded in this weird alternate reality that doesn't resemble anything natural.

 

[Mark Antony]

Yes.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

most of these neighborhoods are solely designed for the automobile leaving those without means of transportation stranded in this weird alternate reality that doesn't resemble anything natural.

Needing to own a car to do anything is the opposite of "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy ". How do you define pod life?

 

[Mayor Adam West]

Just because something is cookie cutter doesn't make it pod living.

 

[gang weeder]

When you think about it, getting into bed for 8 hours is like crawling into a little pod to sleep. Cringe.

 

[Nacho Man Randy Salsa]

The difference is you own your pod.

 

[The Wicked Mitch]

In a way, yes. Living in an "apartment" is much, much closer though. In fact it's the same, in the future they'll just be smaller, rent only and forcibly shared with Dikembe, Pajeet#69, Farid and various MS-13 affiliated Sainted Angels - imagine the fights over bugpaste rations!

 

[Santa Fe Swag]

Needing to own a car to do anything is the opposite of "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy ". How do you define pod life?

Country living requires a car too but you get absolute freedom. I pick that one

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Even with mass produced, cookie cutter homes, you still have something you can call your own.

The whole point of pod living is to eliminate the idea of ownership in even the smallest ways. To get people used to living in gulag-style arrangements where you don't even have your own room.

At least with an apartment, you have your own space, you have privacy. Even if you lived in an RV, you still have something you could call your own.

You don't have that with a pod.

 

[Fomo Hoire]

At least with an apartment, you have your own space, you have privacy. Even if you lived in an RV, you still have something you could call your own.

You don't have that with a pod.

One test you can do: Can you fap without holing up in a bathroom or giving someone else a show?

There is some variation if you have to share a room with someone, or if the little hitlers start some more lockdowns and summers of love and now you're living 24/7 with your extended family, but generally speaking you should be able to find a way.

Which is ironic because the Bugmen who live in pods probably need to resort to fapping more than people who have standards.

Also weirdly, by this standard, prisons are pods. I don't disagree, but I never hear them mentioned. I guess because everyone who is pro pod is privileged enough to not have to think about getting locked up?

 

[Law]

Rural living is just pod living but the pods are very far apart from each other.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Yes

 

[Robot Gentleman]

No, for the reasons given above. “Pod living” isn’t just cookie cutter conformity, it’s about eliminating your space, property and privacy (which is the opposite of what suburban homes do).

 

[Unyielding Stupidity]

No - the main things associated with "pod living" are having thousands of people crammed together like sardines in some urban bughive with no privacy, and maybe a couple square metres of personal space if you're lucky.
Meanwhile, a suburban home is the exact opposite. Sure, the houses are cookie cutter, but you have hundreds of square metres of space all to yourself - as well as your own kitchen, bathrooms and garden. Plus, you can actually reasonably get a partner and raise children while living in a suburban house. You can't exactly raise children in a pod.

 

[grimacefetishist]

Maybe not pod living, but the current extremes of suburban living will deprive people of certain things.

I understand broken window policing conceptually. But it gets fucked up by what people consider to be a broken window. IE sidewalks are bad because they lead to children hanging out. So now you have a ton of people (excalifornians) stranded out in Colorado in a housing development with no parks, businesses, yards, sidewalks, gardens- maybe that's fine but it's certainly not what I personally consider fun. I can't imagine what it's like for those kids to be so dependent on their parents for everything, and only their own parents.

But on the other hand, those housing developments don't usually replace the ones I prefer. And while they are essentially just luxury mobile homes, it does make a difference that they aren't tiny.

 

[Aero the Alcoholic Bat]

Plus, you can still furnish your "cookie cutter" home with your own furnishings, etc.

On a completely unrelated note, you can look up "pod living" and it will not only pull up the prison-style bullshit, but also "pods" or "tiny homes" that you can stick in remote areas as an "off the grid" home.

 

[PaleTay]

Needing to own a car to do anything is the opposite of "you'll own nothing and you'll be happy ". How do you define pod life?

Not really, because it's discouraged to own a car but at the same time mandatory. Traffic is bad and gas is expensive, but you can't carpool, bike, or bus reliably so you have to deal with it. That's very different than having freedom to drive to a mountain or trail after work.

 

[epigfroglover420]

It's very different from something like those pod hotels you see pictures of because the ability to customize your enviorment overtime makes said enviorment an extension of your own body. There are times where I am just walking to the sink or kitchen without thinking about what I'm doing, since my brain is wired to go there over years of living out my life in this same house. Inanimate objects becoming an extension of yourself has many examples, such as your shoes or glasses. My point is that you can't exactly decorate and shape the enviorment of a pod home, but you can do so in suburban housing.

 

[EggImpregnator]

My only problem with suburban homes is how flimsy the construction is. I want my home to be made of cinderblock or concrete. Not plywood and sheetrock.
Also lawns. I think grass in general is a waste of resources to maintain. People should have vegetable gardens or chickens or hogs in a run.

Other than that they're really the ideal compromise property. Not isolated in the country but not cramped in the city. Have neighbors within throwing distance but not stacked on top of each other. Kids have plenty of room grow yet still have ample social interaction.

 

[NevskyProspekt]

Even with mass produced, cookie cutter homes, you still have something you can call your own.

The whole point of pod living is to eliminate the idea of ownership in even the smallest ways. To get people used to living in gulag-style arrangements where you don't even have your own room.

At least with an apartment, you have your own space, you have privacy. Even if you lived in an RV, you still have something you could call your own.

You don't have that with a pod.

And apartments don't have to be rented. You can fully own them as private property. The home ownership rates in countries like Russia, Spain, Singapore and Romania are far higher than the United States even though the majority live in apartments.