memes

...it's driven by developer business models, the same reason lots grow narrow-and-deep: they're trying to maximise the market value of plattable land (square area) per infrastructure cost (linear streets + utilities), and narrow houses built right up to setback line means developers can squeeze the most 2500 ft^2^ mcmansions possible on their subdivided parcel...

One of my profs in grad school had a new house built like that, enormous with almost no yard around it separating it from the neighbors. I asked him why and he said his wife liked it like that because it made her feel more secure. I was like, OK so now your neighbors can easily come kill you and then just go home instead of having to flee from a gated community.

TBF this was in Gainesville right after the Rolling murders. Reading about somebody's head on a turntable might make you do strange things.

Yeah that happens here because they are knocking down one house and building two. I don't really disagree with that, honestly. But they don't need to be that big.