Why resident areas are not popular?

[Big_Bap]

We went from 15 wards, with no subdivisions, to 72 wards and a subdivision for each. Don't look any further.

[Antoine_Lenheim]

Not everybody has a teleport to residential wards. If they did, not all of them are so conveniently located near boards/bells. Wards themselves are split into multiple instances, unlike the cities, further diluting population.

Well yeah, but is it safe to assume that majority of players are in FCs and majority of FCs have their own houses? I can only speak for myself but my house has everything, summoning bell, material vendors, crystal bell (which is only available in an inn in Limsa but you can have your own in your house). Have to only run to market board, thankfully its close but positions of boards are well planned and almost all houses in all areas has walking accessibility. Think I need to check Shirogane since Im the least familiar with it. Besides, Limsa has immense lags cuz of large amount of players whether you came just to check something on mb, use your bell or teleport to your GC. So I really dont understand why players still choose Limsa if they need to do something common like put an item on sell or craft. For me it just feels right to craft on your own house's yard :3

We went from 15 wards, with no subdivisions, to 72 wards and a subdivision for each. Don't look any further.

This might be the problem, yes. And it sucks cuz I feel like Im the only living person in my ward :C Well with the exception of some FC that I stumbled upon when been running throught my ward again. They appear to do stuff there quite often.