Reply #6: Glad to hear it [View All]

[Zuni]

I have become a convert to this style. One of the biggest problems in the US is endless sprawl---I have lived my whole life in the Baltimore-Washington metropolitan area, and has become an endless sea of development. I have always hated suburbs--tract houses, strip malls, highways, oceans of cars, wal-marts, parking lots
I lived in downtown annapolis for many years---which is a small community with a commercial center and mixed income housing (and mixed housing with apartments, townhouses and single family homes). There are many locally owned stores and resturaunts, bars and clubs. It is far preferable to living in some bland, colorless tract community.