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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
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That’s not really an accurate picture though because most people would rather live in a single detached home with a yard if they could. Whatever misgivings people have about house maintenance, yard work and additional costs are offset by the advantages of our city design and the space that suburban living offers.
Most people I know see a long commute as a necessary trade off because inner city living means a two bed, one bath condo for the same price as a house in the burbs. And there’s no yard and it’s hard to get around and there’s no parking etc.
The difference comes down to people being able to commute from their suburban home since hardly anyone can afford to live in a SFH in the inner city. The value of inner city multi family living is low and it’s low because our planners and politicians have designed cities to cater to the burbs and car culture.
WFH has only made demand higher as many people expect to rarely or never have to commute again.
Our cities are built to heavily favour people living in the suburbs. Our infrastructure and neighborhoods are built to meet their demands. Nowadays each community has almost every thing you need in those giant anti pedestrian big box commercial zones that are only accessible via car.
The reason why places with high density work is because that becomes a fundamentally better option than a SFH. But as long as people can keep buying cheep houses way out in the burbs, condos and townhouses will continue to be less attractive when our inner city lacks the infrastructure to tilt the scales.