Even mid-rise is kind of bad. You tend to share walls with a few neighbours still and there's no opportunity for any private garden space. It's not great for pe

Even mid-rise is kind of bad. You tend to share walls with a few neighbours still and there's no opportunity for any private garden space. It's not great for pet ownership, either. I'm not convinced it's a lot better than high rise/block housing as a space to actually live in. I say this presently living in a mid-rise in the UK. Edit: I should probably add that the leasehold system in the UK makes them a particularly bad proposition if you want to actually own your home as well. Terraced housing has kind of okay density, at least it's not a total land crime like US suburban detached housing but affords many of the freedoms associated with it.