They have plenty of character.

Friend 1 is a banjo player. You can tell by the large porch facing the entrance of the cul de sac from where he watches everyone who comes and goes.

Friend 2 owns a large pick up truck. This is because his house has the best view of the agricultural fields to the left, so he identifies as a farmer, even if he works in a call center.

Friend 3 doesn’t have a driveway. He actually thought that he would be able to ride with his friends every day.

Friend 4 lives closest to the forrest so he wears outdoor clothing all the time and pretends to be the alpha male.

Friend 5 is the beta cuck who actually fell for Friends 4’s self proclaimed alpha status.

Friend 6 doesn’t exist. Nobody wants to buy that house. The parked car belongs to the real estate agent who pays regular visits to the house with potential buyers.

Friend 7 is a conspiracy theorist who keeps mostly to himself and sometimes disappear for days. The upper floor is larger than the ground floor and is filled with horded things that he calls his prepping storage. There might even be other people up there.

I didn’t give any fucks about what the neighborhood looks like, other than safe.

I do care about property value though.

Look closer - it’s AI.

That’s not too say I haven’t seen some awkward developments (prefab, 55 and over community) where they obviously leveled everything, built, then added back all young trees. Decades later it’s still obvious.

No one outside of high school has six friends.

Me, a guy with maybe a dozen friends I hang out with on a weekly basis, whistling past the graveyard of loneliness

There’s a reason this is called a “dream”.

One trick to living in a cul de sac with six of your closest friends is to meet your neighbors and become friends with them. I’ll say that COVID really helped me with this, personally, because during the peak I was just out on the driveway or walking the local trails trying not to go stir crazy and… so was everyone else. Pretty soon we were doing impromptu parties on the driveway and yoga on the lawn and whatever else we could to avoid the isolation of a pandemic.

But you don’t need a killer virus to wave to your neighbors, say hi, and strike up a conversation. And there’s a compounding effect. When two people are out talking, you’re likely to pick up a third. When five people are hanging out at the end of a day, it can quickly become ten or more.

If it’s an instinctual response to wish for this kind of thing, it shouldn’t be hard to imagine people gravitating towards these relationships IRL.

Or a large wall with cannons and machine guns to keep out any trucks with flags on them.

Friend 3 runs the pub at the end of the block. Doesn’t even need a car.

That’s Kenny’s house

More just staring at the endless expanse of mowed lawn and wondering who is doing all that manual labor.

I didn’t even notice, but that’s so weird. Buy a house like that and park your car out front?

I have a small friend group and we go on vacations together all the time. There are about 6 of us then I bring my kids too. We go to beaches, cabins, amusement parks, you name it. It’s awesome. I wish we all lived on the same st too. I bet we could even save some money by cooking meals together more often.

I thought when I had kids I would be out of any kind of group like this but my friends are awesome. Occasionally they will do something and I’ll have to turn it down because it would be too hard but they always keep asking and we ask them too.

Man, this. I moved in with a friend to my first apartment like 10 years ago. With two more a couple floors down.

Nowadays all 4 of us live in a big house together and it’s great. Sure there’s some conflict, but at the end we’re still friends and we can reconcile like adults. I’d move more of our close friends in if we had the space. We even briefly had a 5th housemate when he was between apartments and that was cramped, but still actually very nice.

Good friends is the key - to me, this sounds great. I have plenty of friends I’d love to have this close, it might even be hard to pick “just” 6.

The only problem I see here is the lack of fences, trees, and plants. And the size of the houses is a bit too big for my needs.

The Good Place doesn’t have cars, except for when Michael and Brent are being awful.

I have to move every year because the rent on my basement only goes up.