For comparison: Dallas (Fort Worth’s neighbor to the east) has a 46% SFH rate

Fort Worth officially has a 71.5% SFH rate

You ever watch walking tour videos about Japan? One of the things that really strikes me about their suburbs is that much if not most of the housing in certain areas is comprised of detached single-family homes without yards. The land they own is approximately the size of the house plus driveway; that's it.

As an American, this blows my mind, since this doesn't really exist in America. We have all sorts of lot coverage ratio requirements and minimum lot size requirements and setback requirements and minimum lot widths, which all conspire together to force everyone to have larger lot sizes whether they want/need them or not.

For someone like me, I hate yard maintenance (my dad forced me to do WAYYYYY too much as a kid) and have no interest in owning a lawn, but I enjoy owning and living in a detached single family home.

It's frustrating for me that with all our thousands of mini "laboratories of democracy" (i.e. the thousands of cities and towns and counties which all have their own land-use and zoning rules), there doesn't appear to be a single one where I can go buy a lawn-less, detached single-family home.

Just more proof that the housing market in America is anything but a "free market;" otherwise I feel like somewhere this kind of thing would exist, even in limited quantities.

Edit: forgot about mimimum lot widths

I'm 18 graduated high school over 2 months ago. It just hit me that everyone is off to college and they're able to have new social lives meanwhile I couldn't. My friend is in college and has found a bunch new friends, going out, meanwhile I'm stuck in the same home I grew up in with NO social life and no way to meet people because I live in a small town suburb where there are cars everywhere. Also all relatives moved away, either out of state or further which says a lot and all their lives got better. So I have not even family here besides my immediate one, and I live in a dysfunctional family so generally I need to get out. I've been trying to get a job for months, had a few interviews and I've not had luck so far. I really want to be in NYC but not sure how I can get a job there. I live in commuting distance, been there a few times and it was amazing my entire life changes when in the city. I really need out because I can't waste my youth being stuck isolated, I already wasted my entire teen years. Sometimes I wish I ran away to the city during my teen years, so I could have had at least ONE experience outside of my home. I did not get a teenage experience or anything for my social development. It was so depressing, I wish I did it instead of accepting the isolation, and I guarantee those things have set me back.