Not just old Europe, many cities and towns to this day. Mixed use zoning I guess is the term. Ironically when zoning laws was first introduced, it had good intent, nobody wants a smoky steel mill or oil refinery in their own backyard.
But commercial isn't heavy industry, there's plenty of venues that does not cause any obstruction in a residential area, like a bakery, cafe's, grocery stores, small mom and pop shops.
Better yet, because these are commercial they can afford a much higher rent than people who just need a place to live. Which means the commercial stores on the bottom floor pays most of the rent so that everyone living in apartments above can get something like 4-8 bedrooms for just $300/mo in towns with less than 100k population.
The isolation in many American suburbs turns into nigger enabling infrastructure. People generally don't care about the problems they don't see. So if you have a neighborhood were everyone knows everyone and everyone trust everyone. It's practically impossible to introduce a negro, soon as a bicycle is missing everyone will know it's the negro, and within 15 minutes that negro will be curb stomped.
Whereas in an isolated city, a whole neighborhood of negroes could emerge next to a fancier neighborhood. The fancier one will have to put up fence with barbed wire, gates and hire security at insane cost and nobody dares to speak about the nigger problem because muh racism, everyone pretends to be pantifa, they're gonna punch a natzee and blah blah... Typical boomers.
Sadly we have similar problems in Europe too, many new neighborhoods are built in American style for maximal car dependency. Except they enforce EV's so it's "green" apparently. Even tho it's the exact same scam.
But commercial isn't heavy industry, there's plenty of venues that does not cause any obstruction in a residential area, like a bakery, cafe's, grocery stores, small mom and pop shops.
Better yet, because these are commercial they can afford a much higher rent than people who just need a place to live. Which means the commercial stores on the bottom floor pays most of the rent so that everyone living in apartments above can get something like 4-8 bedrooms for just $300/mo in towns with less than 100k population.
The isolation in many American suburbs turns into nigger enabling infrastructure. People generally don't care about the problems they don't see. So if you have a neighborhood were everyone knows everyone and everyone trust everyone. It's practically impossible to introduce a negro, soon as a bicycle is missing everyone will know it's the negro, and within 15 minutes that negro will be curb stomped.
Whereas in an isolated city, a whole neighborhood of negroes could emerge next to a fancier neighborhood. The fancier one will have to put up fence with barbed wire, gates and hire security at insane cost and nobody dares to speak about the nigger problem because muh racism, everyone pretends to be pantifa, they're gonna punch a natzee and blah blah... Typical boomers.
Sadly we have similar problems in Europe too, many new neighborhoods are built in American style for maximal car dependency. Except they enforce EV's so it's "green" apparently. Even tho it's the exact same scam.