I'm seeing lots of praise of this from YIMBY/urbanist ideological grounds (which I fully support), but also I personally spent months living in buildings like this in China and I quite enjoyed it.

I'm seeing lots of praise of this from YIMBY/urbanist ideological grounds (which I fully support), but also I personally spent months living in buildings like this in China and I quite enjoyed it.

https://twitter.com/Rainmaker1973/status/1720816222529613960

Many Chinese people wouldn't enjoy living in "pigeonholes" if given the option of living in single houses.

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true, but all lifestyle choices are made in the context of resource constraints. Lots and lots of people are clearly choosing to live in these over similarly priced single houses given the other properties (eg. transportation distance) that those houses inevitably have.

The imprint from our childhood is a factor too. I grew up in a big apartment building and this is my default preference.