Quote Originally Posted by LarryButz View Post
As a side note, having instanced housing would kind of ruin the whole neighborhood feel of housing. Not a big fan of that idea. There's surely better ways of handling the overall problem of housing besides dismantling half the reason housing is cool and fun.
Most players already complain about how empty their wards feel, though. I'm lucky, I have a couple of active neighbors at my house that I see a few times a week while I'm gardening. I also garden at a friend's house and I never see his neighbors at all. I almost never see the neighbors at my alt's FC house when I'm gardening there.

Neighborhood feeling could still be achieved with instanced housing. We'd just lose the ability to have our exterior decoration on display to those randomly passing by. Considering the complaints about ugly neighbor yards, that may not be a bad thing.