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Riverdale [1] is a neighbourhood in Toronto with the kind of higher-density mixed single-family and multi-family homes as well as a few small apartment buildings (but no large apartment buildings) that I had in mind with what I described above. It also happens to be one of the most expensive neighbourhoods in the city which I take as an indication of high demand for the houses there.

Compare that with the sprawl of Vaughan also shown in the video [1].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

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autoexec 21 hours ago | parent [-]

The houses in Riverdale are way too close together. It looks like some of those people could literally open their window and reach into their neighbor's house!

	▲	chongli 21 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Maybe for you, but that’s why we should have choices. I think Riverdale is beautiful and I’d love to live there but I can’t afford it because the place is in such high demand. It’s illegal to build more Riverdales even though they’d satisfy a lot more demand due to their higher density. All we can build is more sprawl because your complaint was made the law of the land.
	▲	prmoustache 15 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Well according to some people there is a loneliness epidemic in north america. What do you want guys? make up your minds! ;-)

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itishappy a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Cars and their infrastructure take up a ton of space which could in theory be used by actual people.

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account42 17 hours ago | parent [-]

In practice that space ends up being used to cram in more people rather than giving people more living space.

	▲	itishappy 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Agreed! However, another way to look at that is that some people are willing to give up some space for a more convenient location. We're not running out of space quite yet.

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nonethewiser a day ago | parent | prev [-]

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	▲	dang 21 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Please don't post like this here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html