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[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

• North Carolina's IS a typical house, but the setup is all wrong and it's subtle enough that I'm not sure you'd really notice it on the street unless you stopped to think. That specific style is one of the....cut-and-paste ones, if that makes sense? You'll see that exact same house everywhere, down to the floorplan, but really only in the low/mid-tier areas, on a smaller plot and sitting closer to the road.

Meanwhile, the yard it's on is WAY too big for that association and is really meant for something fancier and middle-class. You can have a lawn or you can have that house, but you wouldn't have both. And I have no idea what that chair next to the sidewalk is doing there. I can and have seen toilets there before I've seen a chair that's apparently meant to be used to greet strangers on the sidewalk.

• Virginia's seems to have leaned hard into the "historical plantation house" thing, but it's believable. Definitely higher end in my experience, yes. Kinda missing the fancy victorian vergeboard trim, though. That whole gingerbread house thing? Virginia and Georgia both seem to love that shit in the older cities, regardless of income.

• Which brings me to Georgia, and I'm not really super sure what's going on there. Do houses somewhere look like this? It got that very specific Southern Blue down, but it feels like it mixed up the fancier stone facade of suburban housing with the brightly-colored style that seemed to be common in the extremely poor areas. The effect is....confusing.

• What little I saw in photos of Nevada seem to check out, and I'm not aware that the buddy I had there was exactly rich or he wouldn't have been such a fuckup. So that...may be accurate??

• The typical home in California is a tent.