Comments by "Kate S" (@KateeAngel) on "The Case Against Single-Family Zoning" video.

  1. Also: "what do you mean you can do whatever you want on your area? Mow your lawn now!!!"
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  2.  @gottalovesaurav  Idk, I am from Russia, I guess it is not a developed country either, and I wouldn't want to live in an American-style suburb. I see a point in R1, but if it is a place near the nature, like woods or big park, not if it surrounded by other houses and boring lawns on all sides
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  3. Hello, I am from Saint Petersburg too, I agree it has good infrastructure and public transport in central areas and historical neighborhoods. I only don't like places where they build excessive amount of very high apartment buildings, because there the amount of infrastructure is clearly not enough for so many people.
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  4. Actually as someone from Russia I may say only very few cities are built only with commieblocks, and even those usually have single family homes on the outskirts
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  5. My parents live in an apartment in our town but we have a summer house with a garden 20 minutes from their apartment. And the garden is rather large, and we can do whatever we want there (as long as we don't create a fire hazard by building too much) - grow berries, veggies, flowers, lawns, whatever. That is actually how it should be
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  6. Yup, I also plan to live alone when I get out of dormitory, I just want a studio flat, it would be easy to clean. I want to live in our summer house only after I retire, because then I will have plenty of free time. Hope I will be able to build a normal house there by that time, because current one is terrible and unliveable most of the year
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  7. It is not about who likes it, more about why cities cannot consist of only single-family houses and nothing else
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  8. We have a summer house (though post-Soviet cheap one), and I wouldn't want to live like that all the time while I am still working. When I retire - for sure, but as long as I have to work, it is better to live in a small apartment, close to work and also it wouldn't require so much maintenance, because when I spend most of time at work, I cannot maintain a two-storey house. I also actually like to live there on vacations only cause it is near the woods and the lake. I don't see any point in having a whole house to yourself if it is just surrounded by other houses on all sides
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