It's great that you get to enjoy birds and your home theater. Birds are amazing. That shouldn't be the _only_ option for people trying to buy an affordable SFH

It's great that you get to enjoy birds and your home theater. Birds are amazing. That shouldn't be the _only_ option for people trying to buy an affordable SFH that isn't an apartment the size of a closet. I also don't think suburbs shouldn't exist at the cost of walkability. We lived in a modern suburb for two years. Parking was easy (driving to the parking was horrible), but I absolutely hated that walking anywhere was completely infeasible. Early suburbs were smaller, highly walkable and had (smaller) single family homes. I grew up in such a suburb after my first years in NYC. Our house was small (by today's standards), but I walked to school, walked to the main strip to hang out with friends and took the bus to the mall (though its schedule sucked) and to NYC (when I began working). Why can't more suburbs be like this?