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>The reality is that most people want to live in suburbs with a yard and a garage, not in a postcard. Suburban houses are flats on the ground. They have all th
by thrown_22 4y ago
>The reality is that most people want to live in suburbs with a yard and a garage, not in a postcard.
Suburban houses are flats on the ground. They have all the downsides of apartments and all the downsides of houses with none of the benefits of either.
The Soviet model of small flat + country house is probably the only serviceable one. You have a house with enough land to actually grow something and you have a flat that is close enough to everything else that you don't need a car in your daily life.
- decafninja 4y agoI may be misunderstanding, but most suburban houses are true houses. A private, detached building with a private entrance, and usually small yard. Living through the pandemic in an apartment and having witnessed some of the most rude, antisocial behavior from my building-mates both to myself, to other building-mates, and to the building staff, I no longer want to live in an apartment or other shared housing ever again. There's a trend in some suburbs towards duplexes or triplexes, but even those share more characteristics with a "house" rather than an "apartment".