One of the advantage of being self-employed is you get a broader and I think more accurate assessment of what is going on. It has occurred to me here in Hong Kong that the architecture in the United States is wrong for where we are headed economically. I did experience a strange arrangement about 5 years ago in what appeared to be a gated community of Tudor flats near Long Beach California. I was visiting an importer, making a purchase, and her warehouse was the garage of this business... and she lived in the two levels above. For a shop on th ground floor, and living above, is not orignal, but the housing develoment was new... so I noted it.
For the last 20 years I've been saying the days of the importer above a awarehouse in a port city are over, givern the improvement in communication and transportation. You can live in Aspen and have a warehosue in New Jersey. Well maybe that is changing. That arrangement presumes a level of wealth that, given the policies to bail out a failed business model of the Bush/Obama regime, that presumed level of wealth is gone. You cnanot have it because the bankers get it first.
In Seattle there is a zoning code provision for "night watchman" quarters in warehouses in industrial districts. Maybe in your city too... maybe that is the next real estate boom, warehouses and "watchman quarters" remodels.
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