LogFAQs > #979343219

I think there's a large portion of urban and suburban people who would love to have the magical combination of big single family home with a nice sized yard, that's also somehow within very short (5-10 minutes max) walking distance of lots of amenities (grocery store, gym, coffee shop, restaurants, etc.).

Unfortunately, that's simply not a reasonable reality for a very large swath of the country. You can have the home you want, but you've got to drive for the amenities. Or, you can have the amenities but you have to settle for a apartment/condo/townhouse/rowhouse.

Bizarrely, I live in one of those few areas where that magical combo is possible and the prices are fucking astronomical (think $1.5-2+ million for a SFH). They're trying to build out more "missing middle" types of housing (think duplexes, triplexes, etc.) but there's so much pushback from the NIMBY home owners who "got theirs" and also complain about taxes being too high because their land is now worth a fortune.