As I said: trade-offs. Huge spaces, cafes and other amenities of an urban walkable center, (relatively) affordable — you can only choose two. I don't see how a first-world city (where a barista gets $15 an hour and not $200 a month) can have apartments that would be the same size as a typical american suburban home that would cost less than $1 million.

Europeans choose urban centers with small or even tiny (Paris) apartments. Americans choose suburban huge homes.

> Europeans choose urban centers with small or even tiny (Paris) apartments

Some Europeans choose that. However, a bit more than half (56% in France, similar elsewhere) choose single family houses. That percentage is highest in Scandinavia, lowest in Spain (~33%) and Eastern Europe.

Quick googling shows US has ~75% of the pop living in single family houses, similar to Scandinavia. It seems when people have the means, they choose to live in houses.

> It seems when people have the means, they choose to live in houses.

I’m not sure why this point escapes so many people. When your country is vast in size and all it takes is a little bit of driving to get where you need to go, most people are going to choose big, cheap houses to tiny, expensive apartments all day long.

As a person living in a tiny,expensive apartment. I dream of medium sized suburban home without HOA.

Lots of Americans are homeless. Most of them don't want to be.

Many Americans would like other options on the table. I'm one of them.

Of course most people want options, codifying how to have options is tricky though.

That also doesn't change the fact that most people in Europe and US choose to have large single family homes if the option is available.

Where are these home sized apartments you speak of?