...did Kirkwood just tell people to rob a retard?

Those blocks by the country club with all the McMansions are weird and don't feel like Arlington Heights. More like a chunk of Prospect Heights that spun off.

_________________

1960s housing stock aged pretty well, all things considered. I think it's '70s-'90s houses that don't have good bones.

_________________

We're not talking about the bones of the house. We're talking about the aesthetics of them. They are just ugly homes. My grandparents had one in Morton Grove and it may have been the ugliest house I have seen, except for the fact every other home on the block was some derivative of it and nearly as ugly.

_________________
“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I noticed those when I was driving through Elk Grove at some point last year. North of Higging along AH Road...some of the ugliest houses I've ever seen.

_________________

Some are, some aren't. I think a lot of '60s homes that haven't been torn down by now have been remodeled enough to look more contemporary. My dad grew up in a 1960s split-level in Northbrook that has been modestly renovated over the years so that it looks nice enough inside but from the outside is still very much of its time. It's surrounded by teardown-rebuilds that have no sense of scale, no sense of taste. I find those far more hideous than my grandma's house.

_________________

Pulte went public in 1972.

shots fired at Denis

_________________
“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

I was thinking from a purely aesthetics perspective.

_________________
Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

If you want to talk about houses that didn't age well: https://www.google.com/maps/@42.5855267 ... 312!8i6656

Tuscany was built right around I want to say 1999. Then they started on "Phase II" as seen here but I don't think they quite finished it, unless they did and "vaguely lunar emptiness" was what they were going for. This just looks like such a relic of the turn of the millennium boom, the idea that you would live in this sprawling mansion on a hill that's miles away from the town that itself is miles away from anything. Then down the road you had Lake Ivanhoe and Pell Lake. What a way to go insane.

_________________

those houses are so far apart nobody has to see them. From the inside it doesn't matter what your house looks like on the outside.

i have no idea why anyone would want a house on five acres of lawn. maybe if you had a horse barn, apple orchard, fishing hole, etc.

_________________
Reality is your friend, not your enemy. -- Seacrest

I think you need to bump the McMansion thread

_________________
“When I walked in this morning, and saw the flag was at half mast, I thought 'alright another bureaucrat ate it.'" - Ron Swanson

My dad would but he is the original social distancer.

None of the houses there have those things. The subdivision down the street was called "Air Estates" and was for people who owned private planes. Tuscany was just big for the sake of big.

Around 8th/9th grade, there was a family there that started some sort of Christian youth group that a lot of people I went to school with got really into. Mostly I think they wanted a reason to hang out in a well-appointed rec room and have bonfires; no self-respecting Catholics would let their kids join some club for prots. I never joined, but one time my friends and I went to the guy's house to try and do karaoke to Powerman 5000 or something (I don't think it worked), and I remember the guy drove right off the main road and up the hill through the grass to the driveway. At the time, I thought this was the height of cool. But, like, now I can't imagine someone pulling that offroad shit in Barrington.

_________________

I was thinking about doing a "tales of growing up a dipshit in the exurbs" thread but I wasn't sure we'd have the personnel. Recalling "***** has karaoke, let's go there and sing Powerman" feels like it might start unearthing much more.

_________________

Lol, mine was built in 2004. It is a beautiful, well built home. My only complaint is the lack of all brick option from the builder.

I still can’t believe Chus started this board meme. If I recall, his main issue was a foreman telling him to pick up trash in the garage. I think he was more upset at it being a non union outfit or that the guts of the homes are built off site.

Been here over 15 years, and there have been no major issues. But whatever. Happy to play along.

_________________
Hawaii (fuck) You

We put together some plans for two (smaller) homes to the northwest of there, off 50 and Circle Drive.

_________________
@audioidkid

Yeah, I knew someone who lived out there, rode my bike out there once or twice. Weird to have a cornfield in the back yard and not be a farmer.

_________________

Sounds like a episode of "Snapped".

_________________