I grew up in a city of mostly rowhomes and I love them. Plan on buying one one day.

You still get walk-ability, sense of community and good population density (not as good as a high-rise but still good), but also more privacy, and the space is more conducive to raising a family than an apartment. Also they’re cute as fuck and people can paint them different colors and have cool little gardens on their porches and stuff.

    • zan [she/her]
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      2110 months ago

      Note they don’t all need to be convenience stores and restaraunts. Put in small grocers, doctors, dentists, hairdressers, tool and regular libraries, schools. If you make the corner plots big enough I can put apartments on top rather than another house.

    • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]
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      10 months ago

      I’ve been told that such stores are imaginary if they exist outside the bounds of gentrified New York. They are solely within those bounds, and we call them bodegas.

      Source: I’ve listened to any semi-popular podcast.