Pier Life

So I don’t know if anyone’s been to the Pier or seen it, but that’s where I’m living this semester. And it’s kind of set up like a mini-neighborhood. The location is pulled away from campus (or pretty much anything), and is slightly isolated. There are rows of houses set up very similarly to a suburb, but since it’s just college housing, the houses look exactly the same. They are just painted different colors. It’s what I imagine the set of a “utopian” (or dystopian?) society would look like.

And honestly it’s very strange. Because it’s almost like the Pier is trying too hard to look like a “perfect neighborhood.”  It feels rather un-genuine and there’s just a sense of falseness about the whole place. There's this underlying discomfort, and it just irks me.