[lordCarbonFiber]

Citation desperately needed. Having grown up in the suburbs and participated in the exodus along with everyone I knew that could, detached housing is an isolating personal hell (and a pain to clean and maintain on top of it).

Places where single family homes exist rarely even have the option for high density housing and, in the US at least, never have the public infrastructure to support it.

It's a learned excess not a requirement.

[zepto]

How is a detached house an ‘isolating hell’?

I have lived in apartments and single family homes about 50/50 both as a kid, and as an adult, and I’d say bigger places have had an edge in terms of socializing just because it’s more comfortable to host people - but not by much.

[mc32]

BBQs are a great getting together activity summers (good weather). Many apartment buildings don’t have balconies or communal space fir BBQs... detached houses (or ‘plexes) make that activity easier.