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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I hope people also see that you can be rich and live well in less sqft[/quote]

No matter how rich I might (hypothetically) be, I would never in a million years choose to live in an apartment building, jammed in with thousands of others.  No thanks.[/quote]

Yes you would in Paris.

Brambleton is a better fit[/quote]

DP and I'd live in an apartment for Paris and maybe Rome or Barcelona. Not Hong Kong, though.

In fact after the kids leave you start trying to figure out how to downsize to a condo in a walkable area. There's lots that's appealing about that--no lawns, no car to get groceries, and so on. [/quote]

Agree. Living in an apartment in a very green, walkable city that is very aesthetically pleasing, especially if you don't have kids or maybe just one kid, sounds very appealing to me. Living in Hong Kong or any city with extremely limited green space, obscenely expensive cost of living to the point that you have to be legitimately wealthy just to have a pleasant two bedroom apartment, and where food and other basics are sign to be very expensive? Absolutely not. That sounds stressful.

I think a lot of people are afraid of apartment living because of proximity to neighbors, and having lived in an apartment with a totally insane and hostile neighbor, this fear is understandable. But I have a sibling who lives in a suburban culdesac in a 4 bedroom house and she actually had a similar experience with a neighbor who abutted her backyard and I actually think it impacted her quality of life more than my apartment situation impacted mine because it made it very unpleasant for her or her family to spend time in their yard, and the hostile neighbor would literally harass them while they were sitting on their back deck. In an apartment, you aren't exposed to your neighbors in the same way so it's easier to avoid someone awful by just using a different building entrance or leaving the house 10 minutes earlier or later, or not going in the hallway if you hear them in it.

Unless you live on literal acreage, you will have to deal with neighbors, and that always runs the risk of getting a bad one, unfortunately. But I've actually found city apartment neighbors are, on average, pretty good, specifically because most are accustomed to living in close proximity to other people and make the mental adjustment you have to make to do that peaceably.[/quote]

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