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There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?
in firefighting, there’s also the Taxpayer https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxpayer_(building)
This kinda shit is why I fear for my sister-in-law more when she’s a volunteer fireman than when she’s a mountie. You can reason with an armed resistor, but wood is fire’s favourite food and it will hurt you if you’re in its way.
Is it ‘Firetrap’? Because when Mike in 302 leaves his stove on again, y’all get 3 minutes to get out before it burns up.
\clothes-on-my-back house fire survivor. No wood houses; never again.
Nearly every old town square I’ve seen in the Midwest and the south has businesses on the first floor and apartments upstairs. And there are plenty of new urban apartment complexes being built with like 4 floors of apartments over restaurants and various shops. What idiot told this guy that this wasn’t a thing?
My guess is that this experience is very true in suburban North America where you need to drive everywhere and commerical real estate is usually a strip mall. In cities it is very common for lower level of condo towers to have shops and things.
In cities it is very common for lower level of condo towers to have shops and things.
In cities, it is very common for everywhere except for the actual downtown core to not be condo towers at all in the first place, and instead be mostly single-family homes.
Yes, in cities-proper. Not just whole metro areas including suburbs and exurbs; even the core cities themselves are mostly single-family.
For example, here’s the City of Atlanta (not Metro Atlanta; just the core city in the middle of the metro area):
The entire light-yellow area is only single-family houses. (Note: using light yellow for single-family zoning is a common convention among city planners, so all the maps below are going to use that color scheme too.)
Here’s Los Angeles:
Here’s Austin, TX:
I could go on all day. There are only a tiny handful of cities in the United States that aren’t like this.
I think OP is talking about a single building with single-family occupancy and commercial storefront. At least in the US, a lot of single-family residential zones exclude commercial use.
