Originally Posted by
I-Like-To-Bike
Boosters for high density upscale (i.e "gentrified") older housing and/or expensive new garden plot size townhouses also ignore that this housing seldom attracts families with school age children or anyone who may be interested in that in the future. Or people who will remain in urban upscale housing when their children reach school age if they can afford to move to a more suitable location. Presumably quality of schools and/or school districts and recreation opportunities for children, let alone the lifestyle of urban neighbors are no longer a consideration in the home buying advice about location, location, location.
You're making two huge oversights.
First, you're extending from troubled cities to all dense sectors of all cities. A lot of the actual appeal of walkable areas is precisely what they offer for families with children.
Next, you're equating "walkable" and "dense" only with "urban" and "city" rather than also the denser parts of what most people would refer to as a "town" (even if in some cases technically its government calls it a city).