I like the utopia you're describing, but it's definitely not American suburbia.

> I like the utopia you're describing, but it's definitely not American suburbia.

Id definitely have to agree, over the last decade Ive seriously tried committing to life in the suburbs, megalopolises and extreme rural areas.

Walkable to downtown in a midsized city is the only thing that even remotely works for me personally / my family. You do have to be "rich" but it was worth getting a dayjob for.

Theres just something that feels really unsustainable and backwards about other types of spaces unless youre actually a millionaire or are growing your own food? Idunno again just my experience / opinion.

Rich suburbs, sure.

Poor suburbs nobody gives a crap if you're breeding animals, restoring a sailboat or dismantling vehicles in your back yard. They might care if you build a warehouse building but they only care about their cut so you just pay them and they stop bothering you.

It’s not everyone, but some tail of the distribution ends up doing incredible things in personal shop spaces. Look at Ben on the AppliedScience YouTube channel as a prime example.

Perhaps not, but maybe still closer than ossified old world style cramped cities, where private spaces are tiny unless you're rich.

People aren't creative and inventive in Germany, Sweden, Norway, Finland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Italy, the UK, Ireland, etc.?

Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea.

Square meter / person has only gone up here - and the population too.

Not sure how correlated they are. Japan is a nation living in matchboxes yet has consistently produced great engineering and creative work for decades.

He's not talking about commercial outputs. He's talking about what people do in their leisure time for their own enjoyment.

Well if there's one thing HOA's really like, it's creative people. /s