so in US they don't sell 2-generation houses? it's pretty common in Europe where I am from, not that common as it used to be in past, but they are still in market and especially in small towns/villages it's nothing uncommon that more generations are sharing same house or at least land, neighbors of my grandma from both sides are living this way, they are sharing their land but both generations have their own houses next to each other
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If I'm being brutally honest the only time in the US that one really sees "family clusters" like you describe is in poverty-stricken neighborhoods. Or, in the case of St. Louis, a place that used to be nice but the City rotted around the homestead. The dynamic I've seen, especially in Urban US environments (Chicago, New York, Seattle, on and on miscellaneous Midwestern stops) versus International are drastically different - don't get me wrong, ROOTS are extremely a point of Pride.
The idea, and I think Rap stars put it best, is to rise up and then buy your Mom a House somewhere nice. Go make it, then bring the rest of the family up. That's why them and NFL / MLB / US sports starts feel like they owe a lot of hungry mouths. It's complicated for sure!
> If I'm being brutally honest the only time in the US that one really sees "family clusters" like you describe is in poverty-stricken neighborhoods.
You occasionally see it in immigrant-heavy communities even when they aren't impoverished, because family-locality is a cultural value in many of them.
But, and I don't mean this blase style, I haven't seen immigrant heavy block-buying in $1-5M homestead Country Clubs, because people don't buy blocks of land like that in Westlake, Texas. Like you said - occasionally. It's not the status quo. Economics matter.
> But, and I don't mean this blase style, I haven't seen immigrant heavy block-buying in $1-5M homestead Country Clubs
OTOH, I have seen it, close up, in purchases in ~$200K suburban northern California communities, and in rentals in places in NorCal with similar values, which are much more middle income than impoverished.
> so in US they don't sell 2-generation houses?
It's not really a marketing category, because America prefers the (at least illusion of) the isolated nuclear family as the norm.
OTOH, multiple generations of adults in the same home (or in detached units on the same property) has never been uncommon (and is increasingly common in recent years), and there are certainly homes with features that cater to that use on the market, though unless a particular customer is known to be seeking that particular use the features won't be pitched for that purpose.