My impression, from a number of years in suburbia but admittedly still with a limited slice of it, is that a lot of people who like to live in suburban areas fi

My impression, from a number of years in suburbia but admittedly still with a limited slice of it, is that a lot of people who like to live in suburban areas find a need to coordinate with neighbors over resources actively distasteful, and would rather buy them in an impersonal sense from a general provider. I.e. it's not just that they prefer the physical form-factor of a house to an apartment, and would otherwise be fine with some of the communal resource-negotiation that goes on in apartment (central heating, common maintenance of the electrical system, etc.). Rather, one of the things they prefer about suburban houses is that there isn't much need to coordinate with your neighbors, over anything more important than maybe trimming your common hedge at the property line.