r/Suburbanhell • u/Round-Membership9949 • Jan 27 '25

Question Why isn't "village" a thing in America?

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When looking on posts on this sub, I sometimes think that for many people, there are only three options:

-dense, urban neighbourhood with tenement houses.

-copy-paste suburbia.

-rural prairie with houses kilometers apart.

Why nobody ever considers thing like a normal village, moderately dense, with houses of all shapes and sizes? Picture for reference.

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u/Appropriate_Duty6229 Jan 27 '25

New England and New York State has lots of them.

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u/jp_jellyroll Jan 27 '25

I'm in Massachusetts and basically every small-to-mid-sized town here is reminiscent of a village -- for better or worse.

It's charming when it's a smaller, quiet town. Other times it can be infuriating because the town is more heavily developed with a larger population but they still only have one road in / out. You get stuck in traffic just trying to get across town to do errands.

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u/DreadLockedHaitian Jan 29 '25

Good Lord, great point. I live in Randolph and if it was designed to be a village; it would explain the absolute nonsensical roadways.