@linnefaulk @bikepedantic not having a car when the house is right next to a metro station would be a bit too minimalistic!

@linnefaulk @bikepedantic Or, if they insist on accommodating a car, why not have living space above it? (Answer: every architect, ever, has hated attached car/bike space, because people should have to fight their way through miserable weather while juggling bags of groceries/panniers and door keys. Also, it would block some of that precious natural lighting that is making the giant TV unwatchable during daylight hours.)

@anne @bikepedantic Whoa! I am an architect. Perhaps you are speaking of east coast or even Boston architects. 😉

@linnefaulk @bikepedantic apologies! I’m joking, having dated 3 architects, shared living space with another, and worked (or tried to work) with at least three more in a professional capacity. They were all very much allergic to the suburban banality of attached garage designs. 😆

Indeed, I did *not* interact with architects throughout the years I lived in CA. These are all northeast architects I was thinking of. Which only makes it even funnier to me, since the weather here is far more grim than the Bay Area.

@anne @bikepedantic They don’t sound like fun. They probably think Frank Lloyd Wright was a genius and not a lying cad!