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by susodapop 1414 days ago
There are advantages to multi-unit housing that you have not included in your analysis:

- No garden maintenance / snow removal

- Dedicated maintenance staff / landlord pays for it

- Generally lower intrusion risk

- Smaller footprint than most single unit homes: not everyone desires to clean several thousand square feet

And the disadvantages of multi unit housing you listed have their analogues in single unit homes:

- Neighbours are still loud and smelly

- Putting a hole in your wall and fixing it is expensive unless you have the tools + experience to do so yourself. Not everyone enjoys this.

- Commuting becomes more onerous the farther out you live

For many people there is no living situation without it’s compromises. But for some, single-unit is ideal and for others multi-unit is ideal.