There are lots of places with apartments on the 2nd floor and businesses on the 1st floor?
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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.
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.
Zoning sounds terrible until your next door neighbor starts running an auto repair shop out of his garage.
"Mixed use" is also a thing. I know of plenty of examples here in the US, I have lived in one of them. New construction consisting of living space above retail is actually kinda trendy right now.
Also if you live above a greasy diner expect cockroaches
Why is a next-door auto repair neighbour bad? Do you not have laws on noise?
If you live above a proper restaurant expect no roaches ever, because they can't afford for literally a single roach to be seen in their restaurant by their customers.
You've never seen a cockroach in a restaurant? I'm guessing you live somewhere cold, because in warm places cockroaches are just a part of life. I'll still avoid anyplace I've seen a cockroach, but it's not like those places get shut down. They just need to up their pest control.