35 Modern Home Design Trends People Simply Can’t Stand Anymore

This is the answer, and I'm surprised the OP didn't know this. I live in such a development, and it's right off the interstate. If the roads weren't designed like that, we'd get a ton of traffic we aren't designed to accommodate.

Unchecked population growth: still taboo to address.

Sad but true.

That is fallacy on the humans are disposable line of thinking. If you took every human on this planet stood them together without touching you would cover the island of Manhattan....maybe. The problem is resource allocation. Nobody needs 20 billion in cash. Building homes and factories on farmland. Tossing out food because it isn't pretty or [walmart] no room on the shelves. Building crappy expensive inefficient transit and not maintaining public roads. Having corporations set pricing, distribution and availability... at&t. The list of dysfunctional greed and unaccountability goes on.

Damn right. Where I live is one of the oldest settled areas in the US, and a family of 3 living in a 3000sqft house is considered new money tacky. People buy 300 year old houses or decent apartments in Boston. 10 miles from the metro area and it's town after town after town with populations under 2k, and sometimes miles between houses dotting vast swaths of pristine state forest. Population density is a huge problem in the suburbs, the cities are like human jenga, but it's better to have janga housing in some spots and wilderness in others over having evenly spaced oversized building housing only 2 or 3 people, a problem in the recent growth areas. My house is from the 1750s, has housed many families, is considerably small compared to modern homes but large for its time, and houses 1 person per 300sqft. This is my love letter to New England- please continue to keep the people off the reservoirs!

But then you have to worry about the new tree's roots damaging that plumbing etc in a couple of decades. Or you could just work around or through the current roots.

Not in most areas in Florida. Usually here they might put in a playground, but that's it. They fill in nature areas such as swamps, which displaces all the wildlife. I still find it amusing the people who bought houses on Alligator Alley complain about the gators.

Who goes outside anymore? I joke. I joke. I know people who rarely spend any time outside - mostly walking to the mailbox or their car to go somewhere

Same. We have a rural home outside a small town. Big trees. Space the breathe. 10 minutes to town.

Stepping up and down into a tub can be very dangerous especially with older people or people with a physical challenge. I once took an older couple to look at an apartment they wanted to buy and the place was very nice and had huge potential. But for some weird reason there were TWO steps to get to the tub and they were slick tile. They didn’t buy specifically for that reason.

I live in Ireland and have stayed at B&B's live this. The toilet was in a tiny cubbyhole! To make matters worse, the shower glass wasn't frosted and there was no curtain for privacy!

Well said. And it just looks messy and cluttered.

Yes. And the open shelving is often near the stove. Ugh.

It’s the same with the huge pots and pans hanger from the ceiling. Always dusty, always greasy

Same! I have a small galley kitchen with limited space. I also have a good collection of Fiestaware so my husband built a nice shelf above my window to display the teapots and pitchers.

My upper cabinets over the pass through counter area have glass doors on each side. So, you can see stuff, but no exposure to dust or grease. A happy middle ground. :)

Thanks for the different perspective!

It's like people don't even consider that what they find annoying is helpful to so many of us. I use smart outlets in my house, and it has helped me save on energy at a time when energy rates are soaring. I love being able to ensure anything I'm not using is turned off. I love being able to change my thermostat from my phone because if I end up being away longer than planned, I don't want my AC running at full blast. I don't understand why so many people see tech as the enemy when it can totally be the ally.

True, it can be very useful. But take good care of the security and who can access the system. Also ask how long updates are guaranteed, what happens if power goes out (example: smart locks) and what happens if the system is hacked

Very good point! But yes, the technology does need to be improved.

Right, and the timer can't be hacked and never becomes obsolete. I use them all the time when we're gone for more than a few days.

Not everybody is physically able to get up and manually change things. I can turn off lights when I'm not even home. That's amazing to me. Technology isn't your enemy.

Well you can still use the switch on the wall. But you can also use your phone, use voice command etc. Think of them as additional switches.

For me to be able to adjust both brightness and color temperature of indoor lightning around the day is pretty useful. Especially in mid winter when sun rises about 9 am it`s easier to wake up in the morning with bright and could light which would otherwise be way too much in the evening.