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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 4:43:54 GMT -5
Like people who always eat 100% of their food intake from restaurants (you could do it cheap by buying stuff like McDoubles), end up trading in their kitchens for bigger bedrooms or man caves?
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Post by Mozenrath on Feb 17, 2019 5:00:28 GMT -5
I have my doubts, I feel like you'd probably at least need a microwave and fridge. Still, I am sure there are people who don't use their kitchens for that much.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 6:02:58 GMT -5
No, because it would severely hurt the resale value of a house. You want a kitchen in your house even if you don't cook much or at all because it's very likely that the person looking to buy your house wants a kitchen.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Feb 17, 2019 7:09:41 GMT -5
No, because it would severely hurt the resale value of a house. You want a kitchen in your house even if you don't cook much or at all because it's very likely that the person looking to buy your house wants a kitchen. Yeah, I mean its easy if you never cook just to use the kitchen for something else. Like Carrie from SATC used her oven for storage. But you would have a hard time selling your house without one. I think people who don't want a kitchen at all are a huge minority. Now if you are building a home for say retirement and you plan on hitting up the senior deals for every meal I could see that. If you plan to die at that house and don't really care about what your heirs will have to do to get rid of it after that it could be ok.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Feb 17, 2019 8:57:40 GMT -5
1. The kitchen is often an entry/exit to the house. Who's going to want people walking right through their bedroom or "man cave"?
2. Who decides to live off the McDonald's Dollar Menu as the sole reason to buy a house? Also, you can't just "trade" rooms; remodeling a kitchen into a bedroom would seem to price out the Mr. McDoubles of the world.
3. As others have mentioned, it would destroy the resale value of the house.
In short, no. No, we will never see this.
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Post by Bo Rida on Feb 17, 2019 10:06:04 GMT -5
Probably, some already convert every available space into a bedroom to cram more tenants in, might as well ditch the kitchen too. Plus the bathrooms if the property happens to have a perfectly good garden to go in.
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Post by Milkman Norm on Feb 17, 2019 10:32:49 GMT -5
As someone who enjoys cooking and finds it therapeutic I sure hope not.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Feb 17, 2019 10:39:17 GMT -5
considering it's more expensive to eat out every night than it is to make your own food (even if it's garbage from a box) I doubt this idea would ever have any legs.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 11:15:42 GMT -5
considering it's more expensive to eat out every night than it is to make your own food (even if it's garbage from a box) I doubt this idea would ever have any legs. It's really not more expensive to eat out when you factor in the cost of ingredients, food storage, meal planning, the time it takes to cook a meal, and the time it takes to clean up. Yes, it was cheaper to eat at home in the 50's when food was cheaper and there was a Stay-At-Home Wife/Mom to prepare a meal every night, but those times are simply gone and most people don't have the time to plan and cook a meal for every night.
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Post by xCompackx on Feb 17, 2019 11:22:47 GMT -5
Pretty short-sighted to not have a room just because you don't use it. I mean, if you're building your own house, do whatever you want, but kitchens aren't going away unless they can make those "meal in a pack" things from Spy Kids a reality.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Feb 17, 2019 12:41:54 GMT -5
considering it's more expensive to eat out every night than it is to make your own food (even if it's garbage from a box) I doubt this idea would ever have any legs. It's really not more expensive to eat out when you factor in the cost of ingredients, food storage, meal planning, the time it takes to cook a meal, and the time it takes to clean up. Yes, it was cheaper to eat at home in the 50's when food was cheaper and there was a Stay-At-Home Wife/Mom to prepare a meal every night, but those times are simply gone and most people don't have the time to plan and cook a meal for every night. That might be true in some places but it sure as hell isn't here. A typical fast food meal is about $13 or $14 for me, but a chopped potato and some pasta is probably about 6$ in ingredients, complete with leftovers.
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Post by Zombie Mod is not a ghoul. on Feb 17, 2019 12:58:01 GMT -5
only if people learn to not eat.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 17, 2019 13:13:45 GMT -5
I suppose it would be possible if there was a 'communal kitchen' option to an apartment building, where there'd be one kitchen-type facility on each floor...
Sounds like the kind of thing that'd only work in a high-density population area.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 13:23:49 GMT -5
I suppose it would be possible if there was a 'communal kitchen' option to an apartment building, where there'd be one kitchen-type facility on each floor... Sounds like the kind of thing that'd only work in a high-density population area. Most people would not want a communal kitchen. People don't want to live like they're in a dorm when they're adults.
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Post by Hit Girl on Feb 17, 2019 13:25:55 GMT -5
Yes, when replicators are invented.
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Feb 17, 2019 14:01:16 GMT -5
I suppose it would be possible if there was a 'communal kitchen' option to an apartment building, where there'd be one kitchen-type facility on each floor... Sounds like the kind of thing that'd only work in a high-density population area. Most people would not want a communal kitchen. People don't want to live like they're in a dorm when they're adults. Well, the OP put forth the idea that people eat out more and use their kitchen less and would use that space for something else. I was thinking that you couldn't just not have those facilities but a communal version could be a suitable substitute. Of course it would have to be locked and/or monitored somehow. Also, I didn't notice the bit about 'houses' in the OP... then again, who can afford a house in some of the bigger cities?
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 14:04:13 GMT -5
Yes, when replicators are invented.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2019 14:14:40 GMT -5
That world sounds like it sucks.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Feb 17, 2019 14:28:05 GMT -5
I can't imagine living spaces not having kitchens.
I can imagine, however, the dissolution of the idea of owning living spaces.
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Post by Paul on Feb 17, 2019 14:32:57 GMT -5
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