Comments on: The Unfinished House http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/05/the-unfinished-house/ A Suburban Design Competition Fri, 16 Jul 2010 04:02:26 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Wayne scott http://www.re-burbia.com/2009/08/05/the-unfinished-house/#comment-521 Wayne scott Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:56:55 +0000 http://www.re-burbia.com/?p=2547#comment-521 So the banks will give up these foreclosed homes, and a contractor will use a giant expensive crane to slowly reassemble houses as if they are Lego blocks? Realisticly speaking putting a house on a crane is expensive work, requiring many more hours than it takes to build a house. Every window and door will be racked and useless with twice the labor and for what? After taking away the most desirable aspect of living in the scenic countryside, what is so great about living in a cluster of residences where half the windows and doors are now facing the neighbors? Even if you centralized a square mile of McMansions, the traffic congestion just gets worse as everyone tries to leave the complex to get just as far to work. So the banks will give up these foreclosed homes, and a contractor will use a giant expensive crane to slowly reassemble houses as if they are Lego blocks? Realisticly speaking putting a house on a crane is expensive work, requiring many more hours than it takes to build a house. Every window and door will be racked and useless with twice the labor and for what?

After taking away the most desirable aspect of living in the scenic countryside, what is so great about living in a cluster of residences where half the windows and doors are now facing the neighbors?
Even if you centralized a square mile of McMansions, the traffic congestion just gets worse as everyone tries to leave the complex to get just as far to work.

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