While we are in the season of mucho meta and community navel gazing, I'd like to ask about housing. So once again, we plunge into the world of non-scientific yet likely fairly representative if-this-gets-rec'd polls.
However, as always with these polls, the most important thing is the discussion engendered. Why do you chooce to live in the kind of housing you live in? Does your domicile reflect your values? If so how? If it doesn't, then what kind of housing would suit you better? Do you view housing as part of your investment portfolio? As an art form? As simple shelter?
I recognize there are housing options I don't include in the poll, but there are only so many options and I wished to cover the options most common among Americans. Especially if you feel your housing situation is not covered in the poll, I want to read about it.
Housing is central to how we see ourselves, how we relate to our neighbors and how we arrange our lives. I believe there are very close realtionships between where we live and how we behave as citizens and as voters. In future diaries, I will more thoroughly address the questions of what kinds of neighborhoods we live in and also our primary modes of transportation. I look at these issues as peripheral to the more broad demographic questions Dr Steve B is covering.
And once again, this is not scientific research, it's a conversation starter. So what keeps the rain off of your bed?
Update: I ought to more clearly define what I mean by high density. I mean places where most of the buildings are over four stories high and single family homes or even duplexes have mostly if not completely been razed or converted to upscale office space (if it's an upscale area) or flop houses. Think in terms of most parts of Manhattan or Chicago's Loop or north lakefront.