[clarebear]

Walkable neighborhoods are like environmentally friendly homes... people won't usually pay as much more than what they cost as they will for McMansions, so builder's don't want to build them. I live on a cul de sac and my kids play games on the street with the neighbor kids, but we are the only family on the block that walks to the local park just outside of our neighborhood. We do walk to that park, but drive to the indoor play/swimming complex 2 miles away. So the rules of thumb in this article apply to my family, but not the others on my block.

[lanaius]

Not that it directly relates to your comment, but Midtown Atlanta is filled with brand-new high-rise condominium buildings at an incredibly high price. They continue to build more of them even right now, so there is still healthy demand there.

[runako]

Worth noting since this is on HN: pretty much nothing in Atlanta is an "incredibly high price" by the standards of America's coastal cities.

Things may be relatively higher in Midwtown than places much further away, but none of it will be "expensive" for folks reading this.

[wmeredith]

You presume too much. I live in a suburb just east of Kansas City and my money goes a long way here.

[svachalek]

I need to get out my atlas, I coulda swore Kansas City was not on the coast.

[wmeredith]

I was referring to the assumption that all of HN's reader base is located in coastal cities.