Suburbs vs Urban Living

It's not some perverse feeling of superiority or hatred of walking, but suburbs and cars are easier for families, especially large ones. The dense urban areas in the US tend to have more young and single people.

Living in suburbs instead of in dense walkable cities is a choice as well.

Retirement isn't the issue. Most people who live in suburban areas today close to live in low density areas. They don't want their neighborhoods to become urban regardless of what that would mean for proximity to jobs and other desirable features.Stop trying to tell people what they ought to want. Not everyone agrees.

Many choose suburbs because there aren't walkable cities as an option

There are advantages and disadvantages to urban and suburban life, and different people prefer different things. There isn't some universal human urge to live in suburbs. The cheap availability of automobile transport simply adjusts the cost benefit by reducing costs, as does racism.I suppose another factor is that Americans don't really do cities right, but this is largely an effect of the other two factors, plus the awkward way the American political system gives disproportionate influence

Yes, in the USA people choose between living in a city or suburb. If you pick suburb you need to use a car all the time or be on one of the few major rail lines. People are just bringing up how this design seem to capture some of the worst parts of suburb living while managing to doge the benefits of city living.

Definitely. Are you in the US? Here in the suburbs things are just awful. Massive houses with 1 to 2 people, massive yards, many suburbanites grow no plants at all. It's very different from both rural neighborhoods and urban neighborhoods. But suburbanites tend to like it, and recent urban sprawl decisions in my area have been approved despite voices against them. And again to your question, people aren't happy with commutes now ... to get _anywhere_ in American suburbs you have to dri

Possible solution: you live in a dense urban area and people who want to live in the suburbs live there?

Isn't that what suburbs are for?

Suburban housing is one of the most inefficient ways to build cities.Suburbs make everything car centric.Everything is far, services are more complex and expensive to offer, public transport non existent.I really find suburbs from my experience in Ohio 10 years ago, as an European, an ugly distopia.And I haven't even got to other serious issues they have like absolute lack of socialization. Very little to no place to gather for local elders, dangerous for kids to walk/bike.