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There is nothing new here. This should have been identified as an advertisement. Condos have been around for a while. The problems with condos and involuntary membership condo corporations have been around just as long. There are far more people that said "never again" after "owning" a condominium. You're better off in an apartment.
^^Agreed! Same old tropes as always in these articles. How exciting, to watch a football stadium being constructed! I can't imagine anything more picturesque or relaxing after a long day at work. "Let's go look at the dust, honey"! "Oh, look, they're laying the sewer pipes!" Good grief!
Different age groups? I doubt it. In Denver, there are apt. buildings known for being one step above frat houses, where a lot of very young 20 somethings live and party all night long, all weekend long, and others where people live quieter lives. Who'd want to raise a child in the former?
And the eternal " “In a traditional neighborhood, houses are next to each other, but family rooms are in the back and people drive into attached garages half of the year and never see each other. Residents of buildings see neighbors all the time, in elevators and hallways.” Or around the rooftop fire pit, in the mailroom or at a residents’ barbecue."
Right. People in SF homes just drive in, kick back and watch "Dancing with the Stars", while those in mulit-family homes are off volunteering at the soup kitchen together. Shockingly to some such as this reporter (using the term loosely) many single family neighborhoods have common space, lots these days have shared mailboxes, and many have neighborhood barbecues and other such events.
Community mailboxes are pretty basically ubiquitous in newer suburban areas in Ontario, and they're starting to be phased in in older suburbs too.
I would still say you're more likely to bump into neighbours in denser environments, although you might not be more likely to see them. IE apartment building hallways don't have windows, and apartment windows don't always face the street (or are too high up to recognize people at street level).
Then again, both my sister and I have had house-mates we saw about once a month or less because they somehow managed to avoid us. Not sure how the places we lived in would compare to "one step above frat houses apts" in Denver, they were mostly houses/townhouses (in one case a duplex) where a unit would have 4-7 rooms, 1-2 bathrooms, a kitchen and lounge/rec room. There wasn't much serious partying, some of our house-mates were regularly loud until 11-12pm and might occasionally be loud for 15min after coming home drunk at 2am but that's it. Other times they were already quiet by 10pm.
The university area also had a lot of newer apartment buildings but I suspect they would be more quiet than the houses we lived in on average.
There is nothing new here. This should have been identified as an advertisement. Condos have been around for a while. The problems with condos and involuntary membership condo corporations have been around just as long. There are far more people that said "never again" after "owning" a condominium. You're better off in an apartment.
Agreed. The reporter missed the opportunity to analyze the pros and cons of these buildings. And the "who, what, why, when, and where."
All I can say is we better get MUCH BETTER about soundproofing individual units in high density housing or people are just going to end up more angry and stressed than ever.
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