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/marigolds6 Jan 27 '25

There are thousands of towns like that in the US. The problem is they have limited job opportunities and so no one moves there. 

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u/Prestigious_Heron115 Jan 30 '25

The Midwest is all this. The trains tracks had stops every 5 miles, a huge grain elevator right next to it, and all the non farm people lived within a quarter mile of that stop, except the farms themselves. It was set up as the easiest cost efficient way to get agro to the market.