This sort of neighborhood is one of the few I'm completely unable to find any redeeming qualities of. Is a big house on the cheap really so much of a strain in Bismarck to justify this?
On the plus side, at least there are sidewalks, the houses aren't completely identical, and a few of the street names are kind of cool. That about covers it.
Outside of the hideous sprawl like the area above, Bismarck consists of white trash/Native American trailer parks, urban-style commercial and multi-unit housing areas (remember that a good portion of Bismarck's economy is based off being the only place in miles with decent shopping.) and older residential middle class neighborhoods like where I grew up. The first two obviously aren't going to appeal to the type who would want to live in such a place. The last has some big houses, but at the turn of the century didn't have anywhere near enough to justify the demand at the time. And when you have a high growth area with TONS of empty space surrounding it it's obvious what developers are going to do.
Hmmm, my home precinct voted 57% for McCain. But Obama did manage to win a few precincts right to the south of it narrowly (areas where some Natives and poors actually live unlike my home or the pictured place.)
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