Comments by "" (@steemlenn8797) on "U.S. and European Zoning, Compared" video.

@Kamen_Rider_Blade I strongly think "many" is wrong. Because most people who have experience with both (e.g. US suburbia and EU village) will show you the middle finger if you ask them to move back from their 3.000 people village to their former 3.000 people suburbian wasteland. There are people who want to live in a cabin in the woods. There are people who want to live in nothing that is smaller than a 20 storey building. But most just want an objectivly good place to live, means quite with close amenities and work, preferably with some green. A huge unused front yard where you can't even put up your laundry to dry is not high on the priority list.
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Here in Germany most (single doctor) clinics, tax accountants and lawyers have their office in what was once a normal appartment. My company has it's local office in the middle storey of an old 3 storey villa. First and third are normal renters living there (Since we don't have customers coming that isn't a problem with noise etc.)
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And some of those restrictions are totally bonkers. Like "no solar on the roof, since the house is "denkmalgeschützt" (protected building) and must retain it's look, even though the street is so small you can't even see the roof from down there.
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The wrong element? Like people buying apples? How shocking!
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What a horror! You must run into so many of "those people!" ;) And all the neighborhoods must be full of destroyed character and totally boring.
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@Moon Shine Oh yes, typical reaction from the US. There is either suburbia or New York. That's because many of you don't know anything else. "Normal" towns (for a European) haven't been build in the US for half a century. And my views are not niche, you just can't have them because of your lack of experience. Those in the US who actually experience it are very happy with it, as you can see by the fact that the few "EU-style" neighborhoods that exist are at the top end of housing prices.
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Even in the badly inspired single family homes ares that have cropped up in the last decades, planning makes sure there is at least one small shopping area (e.g. for an ALDI) close, and kindergarden and school are required to be nearby (to a certain extend). Also single doctors, lawyers and similar professions can simply use an appartment as office.
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As someone who is relativly big and whose grandmother once lived in an old building with exceptionally low ceiling, I fully approve of that decision. My head still hurts thinking about a specific place, and my grandmother is dead for 8 years now.
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Yeah, everything from the 60s on is probably not so great because of cars. But we still have a lot of old places left, and that is how we know which one is better.
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@Moon Shine I am not crying, how the hell could you get to think this? Fact is that it is basically illegal in the US to build anything except suburban sprawl or towers. And from what I can read a lot of those living in suburbs don't enjoy it. They hate bad streets, having to driver themselves and their kids all the time and all the other stuff. But yeah, be as snobby as you want. It's not my problem. I live in an appartment in a 3 storey house 600m from the office I am working in and I definitely pay a lot less than if I would life in a single family home, so I can afford to stop working when I am 50 even without being in a high income job. If that suburban stupidity wasn't also destroying my life with it's waste, I could happily ignore what happens on the other side of the ocean.
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