I grew up in a city of mostly rowhomes and I love them. Plan on buying one one day.
You still get walk-ability, sense of community and good population density (not as good as a high-rise but still good), but also more privacy, and the space is more conducive to raising a family than an apartment. Also they’re cute as fuck and people can paint them different colors and have cool little gardens on their porches and stuff.
They’re alright. Used to live in an area with them, some friends lived in them. The long narrow floor plan makes it feel like you’re just living in a hallway. I guess they don’t have to be that narrow, though.
Living in a 12’ wide rowhouse atm, I def think the sweet spot is 16-20’ wide, 50-80’ deep, and 3 stories with a partially finished basement.
The problem is that is a pretty big house. Thats 5500 sq ft on the high end and a little under 3k on the low end. You definitely need to house more than one or two people in them.
I live in a 15’ wide row house, and I could use the extra 2 feet. I think 17-18’ is good, and 50 feet long. That makes about 2700 or so square feet with a finished basement.
What many people do in my area is live on two floors and rent the third out as a (nice) 1-bdrm apt.