Comment 31422

By Meredith (registered) - website | Posted May 30, 2009 at 22:37:58

Terraces are a fairly commonplace answer to the desire for extended private outdoor space, and there's many North American and European cities where it is the norm to raise your family in a condo, apartment, or if you can get one, stacked townhome.

Simply because we're not yet used to the concept in this city (and it's still fairly new in most of Canada) doesn't mean we're right or perspectives cannot change. The people I know in Switzerland and Toronto who are living that lifestyle are enjoying life just fine with their kids. For them, the ability to do that is luxury, not suffering. A backyard is no more a need or a right than we've created it to be over far less than a century.

It's certainly an enormous hurdle when we live in a city where high-rise living is generally a result of poverty rather than choice and the quality of accomodations reflects that.

However, thinking one's particular perspective and culture is the only "reality" that has ever existed or will exist is rather naive and shortsighted... our ancestors would likely be scandalized by how all of - including myself - all to some degree buy into our current culture of extravagance and entitlement.

"This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy." - G.B. Shaw

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