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They won't let you live that Bob's Burgers life! (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure there are miles and miles of suburbs around the city

Which means it's going to be decades before enough redevelopment happens before mixed-use can be considered "common" compared to that sprawl.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It's not "common" per se, but if you wanted to live above the store you owned, as the poster was talking about, it would be easy to do so in the United States today.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It would not be "easy!" You would be severely limited in your choice of location due to lack of availability compared to other housing types, and what places you do manage to find would have an inflated cost per square foot compared to other housing types because they're bid up by demand outstripping supply.

Maybe there are certain cities where it's common enough to be "easy" in that particular city, but you can definitely not extrapolate that to claim that it's easy on average in the US as a whole.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The US is a huge and diverse country, and you cannot make ANY generalizations that will apply to everything. You are right that “easy” isn’t the right word, but there are places where it is possible.

I guess my original point was that there are communities that are starting to prioritize mixed use buildings and it IS at least possible now. I’m not sure there was much new build that would fit this criteria in the 80’s or 90’s.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

I’m not sure there was much new build that would fit this criteria in the 80’s or 90’s.

Or the '50s, '60s, or '70s. Maybe not even the '40s.

And that's the problem: because it was illegal to build for like half a century, there's a huge pent-up demand unmet by supply, and that's what makes it very often inaccessible as per the meme.