Apartments.

Nobody's angry but you.

1. So people not being around your house means there's no neighborhood anywhere else? Like.. Anywhere in the game, period? Well, damn. Gotta run stuff by you more often then. (sarcasm)

2.Once again, another person that doesn't understand why infinite wards can't be a thing. It's not server space, it's not "hardware limitations". It's Server-burden and how the server interprets and transfers data. Do some research.

3.Why make two completely separate housing systems, exactly? To appease a small group that cannot be bothered to deal with the current way of things? Boo hoo, I guess? Instanced Housing wouldn't be any better than Ward housing, infact it'd be even worse purely because it'd still take up the same amount of data, the same amount of server-burden. Just without a street to walk down and instead, just staring into an ugly abyss. Yeah, brilliant trade-off.

Ridiculous? Probably. Unacceptable? Well, you said yourself that on Mateus, Balmung and other "similar servers" are bought up within moments of there being new houses. So I guess it isn't as unacceptable as you think. Housing isn't a blight, you're just too obsessed with it.