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Most Americans Want a Walkable Neighborhood, Not a Big House
The symbol of American success often involves having the biggest house possible, but our outsized fantasies seem to be shifting. It turns out most of us value nearby stores and parks rather than McMansions. Luckily, that’s probably where we’re headed.
Already there.
Americans want walkable neighborhoods; Republicans want to defund walkability and focus our nation’s transportation program solely on cars.
Walkability is the thing I end up talking about the most when I talk to my family about living in New York, and by the time I’m finished they usually sound just a little jealous.
ALSO I realized recently that descending down my building’s 5 flights of nearly spiral stairs from my small tip-top room down to 8th avenue, I am basically like a modern princess descending from my kick ass tower room to like fight dragons and shit.
I’ll take a tiny living space (less to clean!) and a walkable hood over sprawl any day. It was one of the most frustrating things about living in Ft. Myers for me.
