[mewzilla]

American appetites for space have put ever-smaller families onto ever-larger lots.

I don't know what this guy's smoking. Around here anyway, Upstate NY, it's McMansions built on wee postage stamp lawns with no trees or landscaping that might require any work. Never understood why folks who could afford more room would want to live cheek by jowl with their neighbors.

[Pharmboy]

It's just more envy and class-consciousness, I believe. Notice they managed to get an anti-SUV message in. Typical, one-sided Times reporting.

[bart99]

" Never understood why folks who could afford more room would want to live cheek by jowl with their neighbors."

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Townhouse communities are popular cause of the little maintenance required. No lawn mowing for example. More time for enjoying the evening and weekends...... elsewhere.

[Fury]

Yep, you see the same here in Western New York. Big houses (very nice), but small yards and no trees. They look like big warts.