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First two homes are another style that was pretty popular in SE Oakville in the 00s. This last one is a bit more unique, I'm having a hard time thinking of other homes like it.

I think a lot of that is due to broader societal changes. People are more transient now due to the fact that they don't keep a job for 20+ years, so they move around more. Some of this is probably also tied to people looking to flip houses. Maybe also the tendency for kids to spend more time on...

Front porches fell out of favour in the 40s-80s but I'd say they're pretty common nowadays. Ex https://www.google.ca/maps/@43.6629905,-79.8061745,3a,75y,132.46h,86.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sMqSCHWtzYBwbPiJZ83mH0w!2e0!7i16384!8i8192 Sometimes garages don't leave enough space for porches, but they...

Yeah, these are mostly full rebuilds with only a small number that were major renos. But there's quite a lot of that in neighbourhoods north of the QEW too. In some cases, like with the typical rebuild in a neighbourhood like Downsview, which is more middle class, I guess the developers are...

What are your thoughts on the different kinds of roofing? SE Oakville custom homes have asphalt of course, but there's a decent amount that use metal standing seam, some with metal tiles, I think some with cedar (?) and even a few that seem to use slate (mostly just ultra-high end). I can't...

Some more examples of what I was considering the Nantucket/Cape Cod style homes. Key features including cool colours (grey, blue, green), cladding that looks like wood (I think usually fiber cement, but maybe a few use real wood), occasionally with some stone clad portions, large porches, sloped...

A couple more homes with the combination of neo-traditional and modern elements.

These three houses are an example of another style that's very popular with custom homes here. I'd say it peaked in popular just before modern architecture took off, although they're still being built today in decent quantities. I believe they mostly use fiber cement/hardie board rather than...

Those houses are both from a street where the original homes were probably built around 1952-1953 based off historic aerials. The first one seems to be in the vinyl clad "colonial style" that was popular in the 1950s. It was definitely already there in 2007 based off streetview. However, homes...

It's hard for me to pin down when these three houses were built based on appearance alone. If I had to guess, I'd say this one was part of the initial phase of suburbanization in the 1950s, but it could be newer too. Based off streetview, this one was built around 2008-2009. My best guess...

The video in the OP went into both the electrification and automation of vehicles in roughly equal parts, so I just decided to address each aspect one at a time. Why are you confident that having enough minerals won't be a problem? I still think the long-term costs are being understated...

I would also add "busy roads will be more quiet to the benefits". Re: your disadvantages -wear and tear: this is mostly from trucks and decreases exponentially with vehicle size. I am assuming in the long run, AEVs will be quite small. Most current vehicles are big enough for 4 passengers +...

Some of my thoughts. I think AEV maintenance costs are being underestimated. In my personal experience, a lot of the maintenance related issues are not related to moving parts in the motor/drive-train but to electronic components and rust, both of which would probably still affect AEVs. Also...

You mean pic 3 with the street number #1173? I don't remember anymore but from the picture it looks like the driveway was 2 lanes wide in the front yard and then they reduced it to 1 lane so that the driveway could squeeze by the porch and reach the garage at the side of the house...

This one's flat roofed again, but with somewhat different cladding than the previous ones. Ranch house renovated to fit in with the current modern style. There's also quite a few houses in the last couple years that have been getting built with a mix of modern and neo-traditional design...

Some more sloped roof homes. This one is one of my favorites and one of the earlier examples of the modern architecture boom in SE Oakville (built in the early-mid 00s I think?):

@SunriseChampion here's some non-flat roofed ones for you (at least in terms of the main roof, some still have flat portions over the garage for example).

Do you know how older buildings in other Great Lakes/Northeast cities with flat roofs are working out? Like Montreal's "plexes" that cover most of the inner city almost all have flat roofs. A lot of New England "Triple Deckers" have flat roofs. Chicago's "2-flats" and "3-flats" have flat roofs...

I do think Oakville has some pretty nice examples of neo-traditional custom homes though. I'll try to keep those in mind in my future walks in the area.

Well, the height limit is 9m, which feels like it should be enough for the whole roof to be sloped on a 2 storey house? Especially since the roof on most of these houses starts below the 2nd floor ceiling. A house like this for example, I feel could have finished the roof with a sloped top if...