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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why people think that apartments, let alone families in apartments, are only a thing in New York City and nowhere else in the world.[/quote]

If you look at the world at large, apartment living is more prevalent in dense cities where employment is city-centric and there aren't many residential areas where one can have a private home without having to go far out. Is this not true?

There are tons of people living in low rise and rural circumstances all over the world. You make it sound like most people prefer to live in 30-story towers and it's all by choice and that's how most of the world lives.  Heavily populated cities provide fewer options for private home ownership, that's all there is, so if you must live there, your choice is apartment living. Given choices like most American cities offer due to lower density, not every family would choose apartment living.

In general people do not like to be severely crowded, it causes stress.  Ideal living is when you are still in close enough proximity to others to enable advantages of living within a community but not too close that you feel squeezed and have zero privacy.  [b] For this reason people love walkable suburbs with smaller lots, rowhouse communities and large luxury apartments.  [/b]The reason people live in crowded circumstances is usually lack of other choices or other choices being even worse economically or safety wise. [/quote]

Agree that the streetcar suburbs are great, but you're not allowed to build anything like that anymore. I enthusiastically support rezoning single-family-detached-only neighborhoods within walking distance of transit to allow denser housing (attached houses, duplexes-triplexes, small apartment buildings, etc.), local commercial uses, and high-quality, frequent transit in dedicated lanes on the major streets.[/quote]

Those are popping up everywhere near the Metro stations...[/quote]

Kinda. But not really. For one thing, there are the parking requirements.[/quote]

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