It wasn't that long ago that so many of us flocked back to cities as the suburban dream proved to be a nightmare. Reading through this I can't help but get a feeling of "been there, done that" and wonder where it all went so wrong. It's as though they found ways to keep people artificially separated even without highways and parking lots cutting through their communities.
Well, I live in a cottage (in a rural area), and am married to an uber-gardener (so lots of flower and vegetable gardens), but I didn't even know there was a name for our style. It's just an aesthetic, not a radical lifestyle.
Small but beautiful, it still takes a lot of time, probably too much time for a young family with commutes and kids at home. We are retirees though, so it's fine for us.
It wasn't that long ago that so many of us flocked back to cities as the suburban dream proved to be a nightmare. Reading through this I can't help but get a feeling of "been there, done that" and wonder where it all went so wrong. It's as though they found ways to keep people artificially separated even without highways and parking lots cutting through their communities.
Well, I live in a cottage (in a rural area), and am married to an uber-gardener (so lots of flower and vegetable gardens), but I didn't even know there was a name for our style. It's just an aesthetic, not a radical lifestyle.
Small but beautiful, it still takes a lot of time, probably too much time for a young family with commutes and kids at home. We are retirees though, so it's fine for us.
Good observations about the cottage core phenomena. I hadn’t thought about it that way before!
You know it ♥️
(Those things are heavy as fuck.)
https://crimethinc.com/2019/04/08/against-the-logic-of-the-guillotine-why-the-paris-commune-burned-the-guillotine-and-we-should-too.
You all should read this article, and rethink using the guillotines.
It's more a metaphor than anything else. At least that's how I think about it.