In most other countries multiple generations of families live in the same house. Some cultures just add on to the house, others just stay in it.
We Americans need our own personal space for all of our stuff.[/quote]
cooprider, you need to get out some more! Modern Australian households and UK households and Irish households don’t have large masses of teeming humanity packed into small pockets of space.
In these countries, the bubbles were even more inflated, that’s all.