by All Star Home, a roof, gutter and siding company in Raleigh, North Carolina. COURTESY OF ALL STAR HOME, COURTESY OF ALL STAR HOME
Heh. It’s an ad.
SEO bullshit
Exactly what I thought. Advertising is getting ridiculous.
I thought it worked well, but these homes aren’t “typical,” they are on the higher end. Most of them looked like million dollar+ homes, though I recognize many would be cheaper depending on the location.
They’re typical of homes that get photographed
• 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.
That was my first thought. Maybe all the houses I’ve seen around the states I have lived are waaaay smaller than typical but these seem like humongous super nice houses for the most part. Easily million dollar houses in most of these cities. Course nowadays I guess that’s not saying much.
The Maryland ones, both generic “Maryland” as well as the Baltimore specific one, those seem really accurate.
Close for Vermont, except it wouldn’t be so well maintained and it needs a few witch windows.
I couldn’t find Chicago (3rd largest city in the States) or Illinois for that matter. The title is misleading.
Scrolled to the bottom to find Wisconsin and it wasn’t there. Odd choice to alphabetize by city and state names mixed together. I don’t usually look in the M’s for Milwaukee to find Wisconsin.
Massachusetts is on there twice
Neat concept, but I have been through so many neighborhoods and the home generated for Minnesota doesn’t really seem to match up with reality.
