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> As someone who owns a house in one of those "walkable residential neighborhoods" the reason they feel so pleasant is precisely because virtually all the people living there have lived their a long time (most people on my block have been here ~20 years). This means there is a community that keeps the local shops alive, people know each other so that they know who does and doesn't belong which keeps them those places safe (I can't overstate how important this is), people raise their children there so they remain active in local politics and work to ensure policies that continue to make these areas nice, and, because they have invested a lot in that area, their homes are all beautiful.

I can give you plenty of examples of places where people owned their houses for decades and it’s still crappy.

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I think more relevant examples would be places with a lot of transient residents (airbnbs, etc) that are still walkable and have a neighborhood vibe

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most of the Netherlands