> For most of the world, yes. This is not really true for most values of "most", and the places it is true, the culture tends to be much different than you wou

> For most of the world, yes. This is not really true for most values of "most", and the places it is true, the culture tends to be much different than you would find in California, eg) you are generally not looking at children being assigned hours of homework to perform in which they have no space to work on it, nor ability to work on it without distraction while the rest of the family lives on top of them. > If one is looking for subsidized housing, isn't that a reasonable compromise? You may want to look up the history of tenements in the US. Broadly speaking the answer turns out to be: no, this is not a good compromise.