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Not even that. I have lived in various small town and suburbs around Indiana and Tennessee. They're really common here. Almost every small town's main square is surrounded by mixed use buildings and mixed use condos are not uncommon either, especially the closer you get to urban areas.
Pick any of those towns and actually look at it from an aerial view. You'll see that that development pattern extends for a few blocks, at most, and is surrounded by a desert of single-family houses.
Yes, a little bit of mixed use exists in each town. But to say that it's "really common" in the US overall is absolutely false.
Towns that have them ARE really common, which was my point.
Glad we agree on the only thing I actually claimed.
So your point was vacuous, got it.
Interestingly, those main squares were all built before zoning. If they were destroyed in a disaster, they could not be rebuilt.