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You have the benefit of suburbia, where you can let your kids bike around like in Stranger Things and maybe even have joint backyards. In other places houses ar

You have the benefit of suburbia, where you can let your kids bike around like in Stranger Things and maybe even have joint backyards. In other places houses are conspicuous and unsafe, whereas sets of apartment buildings can afford joint facilities like swimming pools, treadmills and lifting equipment, not to mention safe space for kids to run around. This isn't necessarily better than your situation; it's just that suburbia has been heavily subsidized in the US and not so much elsewhere.

willcipriano 4y ago
> benefit of suburbia I'll be moving soon, it's starting to get a little hairy around here. There have been a few incidents in the past few years involving drug addicts. One crashed into a utility pole on my property, another crashed into mine and several cars parked on the street and was arrested screaming on my neighbors lawn. The convenience store across the street has overdoses happening on a regular basis that EMS responds to. We often get accosted by people for money when we walk over there. Point being it's nothing like Stranger Things my kid can't ride a bike around town here. That said I can move about an hour or two into the middle of Pennsylvania close to the area I grew up in and it's like what you picture. It's also about half the price in terms of home values and that's not factoring in the larger minimum lot sizes. This is a great starter home for a young family, but once my daughter is older I want her to live in a place were she won't have to deal with this crap.