55% of Americans say they would prefer to live in a community where houses are larger and farther away from amenities – compared to 44% who say the opposite.
These could be factors but I do think this is probably accurate overall. Walkable areas are expensive primarily because they’re in such short supply. It doesn’t take a majority to make it expensive, just a slice of the population larger than the people who can actually fit in such places. And since we’ve made dense urban development illegal in like 99% of the country, naturally any amount of people wanting to live in such places is too much.
Ultimately I think this is a problem created by large, majoritarian government. The suburban majority decides urban design and the rest have little to no power to object.
I think tying “big” to “car-based” and “small” to “walkable” is probably skewing the results a bit. I doubt most people would choose “small” regardless of what follows it.
These could be factors but I do think this is probably accurate overall. Walkable areas are expensive primarily because they’re in such short supply. It doesn’t take a majority to make it expensive, just a slice of the population larger than the people who can actually fit in such places. And since we’ve made dense urban development illegal in like 99% of the country, naturally any amount of people wanting to live in such places is too much.
Ultimately I think this is a problem created by large, majoritarian government. The suburban majority decides urban design and the rest have little to no power to object.
I think tying “big” to “car-based” and “small” to “walkable” is probably skewing the results a bit. I doubt most people would choose “small” regardless of what follows it.
I would choose small, but then I’m weird. A big house just means that you’ve gotta fill it with excess shit, and clean it all the time.