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Originally Posted by Cowboy89
I don't think that's lost on them. I'm pretty sure that in their opinion most middle class people should be able to afford their own single family detached home and that's viewed as the ideal.
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Although this is somewhat (ok - more than somewhat) off-topic, I really wonder what people think about "detached" homes now that are almost always on lots barely bigger than the houses. For example, I went last weekend to look at the Foothills Hospital Home Lottery grand prize home, and I was amazed that a house that was worth over $2 million was set on a lot where the neighbouring house was no more than a few metres away, and where the yard was not much bigger than my balcony.
Is this what people want? I work for a developer myself, and that type of lot/house combo is more the norm than otherwise in almost all new neighborhoods I visit in the course of my employ. It's more an illusion of separation than the reality; you're living in a townhouse with a bit of air as walls between the units.