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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 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):
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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:
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Here's Austin, TX:
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I could go on all day. There are only a tiny handful of cities in the United States that aren't like this.