The latest push in new home building is this idea of the "master planned community." Many municipalities are pushing the European model of 'live, work, play' where you don't have to commute for ever to get somewhere, you don't have to drive to the mailbox, and you spend your dollars locally so that local governments can realize tax revenue required to support the population's needs.
Ironically, something like 73% of the money most people spend is not spent where they live. Yet, everybody is quick to complain about what their town doesn't do for them.
Still, when you go to by a house, the builders are the first to act like they are actually trying to build a live, work, play community. They act that way until you try to hold them to their word.
In their fairly narrow view of things, it is all about the front end. The larger builders tend to see home buyers as curvy 'es' figures with two parallel lines running down the middle.
In the mean time, people typically take possession in phases, meaning that some of them have already started living locally. These are the forgotten souls, the bleeding edge of residents who falsely expect that the builder would care.
