The American Dream is kinda bullshit, I really don’t want a wife and 3 kids and a house in the suburbs with a white picket fence and 2 cars in the driveway.
I want like an apartment or condo in a midrise building on a street with street trees and a small cafe on the corner across from the grocery store where I can walk to a train station that has a train system that goes across the entire city. And a gay boyfriend
Like which of these would you prefer to live in, for the majority of your life
The only reason I adapted poorly to apartment life was the lack of a common area to meet my neighbors.
If apartment buildings had a social space intended for tenants, I would not have been afraid all the time moving from a farm to a city.
People don’t look at each other. They don’t say hello. People guard their laundry for fear someone will steal their clothes.
If there was a communal dining area or something, I could have met my neighbors on neutral ground without fear. But that did not exist.
Apartment complexes should include common social spaces, it would make apartment living so much less scary to folks who aren’t used to having people around all the time.
Yeah, that’s part of the reason that I would advocate for more smaller apartments instead of fewer large ones, so people can get to know their neighbors
There are probably 3 to 6 units in this building, that gives you enough to know your neighbors and form community without having to many people you would feel isolated
I just grabbed the first image of Levittown I could find, here is a color photo
