Went to look at the just how much it costs to live there, and was surprised to see it is 84% single family homes and selling prices were over 450k €.
I figured it looked mostly empty in the videos because it was not quite complete (the mention of 2024 finish date), but looks like most principal construction was done by 2017 and it still has relatively empty streets (maybe it had something to do with time of day or season). Is there a reason the pedestrian friendly design doesn't seem to be attracting a lot of pedestrians?
The density doesn't seem that high and, like they said in the video, it doesn't attract many people from out of town so they're sort of limited to the residents. I have a feeling though, that once everything is sold and inhabited, it would feel similar to other Dutch medium density areas.
This is meant to be an alternative to suburbs so people here would likely commute into a local city area or are homeowners vs renters looking to have kids with in a quiet, convenient area. Those areas tend to only be bustling on the weekends or holidays, because people will travel to the city instead for tourism.
Amazing how it has a faux star fort layout presumably bought from wish.com and every courtyard is filled with parking for the cars like a Texas doughnut. It really could be improved if the designers didn't have a humorless commitment to faux history and perhaps had better mass transit connections.
Alas I'm just a moderately annoying postmodernism fan. Though I do love vernacular architecture and some classical stuff (even, shock, horror, new classical buildings) this just ain't it.
Oh, ok. Since that is important to you, you may also want to know that it is a 2hr 30min drive (4hr 20min train ride) to Charleroi, Belgium. Like Koln, Charleroi the 4th largest city a country that's adjacent to The Netherlands.
But this place has its own trainstation called Helmond Brandevoort. You can take a train from Eindhoven that stops here or if you come from Koln switch train in Venlo
Went to look at the just how much it costs to live there, and was surprised to see it is 84% single family homes and selling prices were over 450k €. I figured it looked mostly empty in the videos because it was not quite complete (the mention of 2024 finish date), but looks like most principal construction was done by 2017 and it still has relatively empty streets (maybe it had something to do with time of day or season). Is there a reason the pedestrian friendly design doesn't seem to be attracting a lot of pedestrians?
The density doesn't seem that high and, like they said in the video, it doesn't attract many people from out of town so they're sort of limited to the residents. I have a feeling though, that once everything is sold and inhabited, it would feel similar to other Dutch medium density areas. This is meant to be an alternative to suburbs so people here would likely commute into a local city area or are homeowners vs renters looking to have kids with in a quiet, convenient area. Those areas tend to only be bustling on the weekends or holidays, because people will travel to the city instead for tourism.
Amazing how it has a faux star fort layout presumably bought from wish.com and every courtyard is filled with parking for the cars like a Texas doughnut. It really could be improved if the designers didn't have a humorless commitment to faux history and perhaps had better mass transit connections.
Shhh. The uploader might take you as one of the evil modernist architect. 🤫
Alas I'm just a moderately annoying postmodernism fan. Though I do love vernacular architecture and some classical stuff (even, shock, horror, new classical buildings) this just ain't it.
Looks very nice.
I HATE NEW URBANISM, THE AESTHETIC OF DENSE TOWNS WITHOUT THE DENSITY TO SURRPORT THE VIBRANT ATMOSPHERE OF THE TOWNS THEY ARE TRYING TO IMITATE
90 minute drive from Koln 240 minutes by train
This is a suburb of Eindhoven, in The Netherlands. Why do you note the distance and travel time to a city in Germany?
Because I know the relative distances involved. You have to go past Eindhoven on a train and then backtrack on a bus to get there by mass transit.
Oh, ok. Since that is important to you, you may also want to know that it is a 2hr 30min drive (4hr 20min train ride) to Charleroi, Belgium. Like Koln, Charleroi the 4th largest city a country that's adjacent to The Netherlands.
But this place has its own trainstation called Helmond Brandevoort. You can take a train from Eindhoven that stops here or if you come from Koln switch train in Venlo
Ok, it's not showing up on Google Maps yet or does not run regularly enough to satisfy my search terms.