> 'Family' and 'Apartment' are words that don't go very well together. This is a very Anglo-spheric perspective, and it's because you guys can't build nice apa

> 'Family' and 'Apartment' are words that don't go very well together. This is a very Anglo-spheric perspective, and it's because you guys can't build nice apartments I grew up in a nice apartment in Eastern Europe, the building had an enclosed courtyard and was a safe place for dozens of kids to play and socialise. You would let out kids without supervision, there are always adults around and they all know each-other. If something serious was going down, they would intervene and call relevant parents. There are always old grandmas sitting on the bench, gossiping and eating sunflower seeds, they were the biological CCTV system. You could also always look out the window and see what your kid is doing. Courtyard here is "don't step on grass', 'don't make noise', 'don't play games', so what the hell is it for? Quite frankly English and Americans just don't get how to build nice cities at all, that's why they always want to move to the suburbs or some village.