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Originally Posted by Muta
I dunno, I love inner city condo or townhouse living. I like being close to everything. I don't see it as being something to judge someone by. There's many amazing and happy families that live in my building too and absolutely make it work, so maybe we can stop speaking in wide-spread generalizations about who lives where and why?
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I don’t get what you’re saying here. You want people to stop generalizing but offer only anecdotal evidence that the suburbs aren’t popular and that inner city living is.
That’s literally what generalizations are for. They don’t mean “everyone without exception”. I don’t know why people so often think that’s what generalization means.
Condos and townhouses are not nearly as popular as SFHs. That’s a fact, not a generalization. The generalization is the “why?” And from my experience in Calgary/Canada is that people tend to, generally, look down on condos and value independent SFHs with a yard. They don’t mind the commute and other downsides to living in the burbs, including the lack of sustainability and the taxation issues that urban sprawl creates.
So yeah, many families live in apartment condos but most don’t and don’t want to.
As mentioned, since it doesn’t appear Canadians want to live in high density multi family units, the only way to encourage increased density is to make living in the burbs cost prohibitive to drive up the necessity of multi family dwellings. In turn this means more people closer to the core, less cars, less infrastructure, better transit etc. It’s a positive feedback loop. Except right now we’re doing the opposite. More roads, less transit, more sprawl which in turn drives more cars, more SFH etc.