But I do have an experience that may be relevant: in addition to having lived in development-wary American cities like New York City and Washington, DC, I have also lived in the very development-friendly city of Hanoi, Vietnam.
Mizrahim living in development towns today recall arriving in Israel during the 1950s and being bundled off to these remote places, then just tent and shack cities; taken by night, so they wouldn't see where they were going, and told that their new home was "minutes" from Tel Aviv or Haifa.
The next generation of potential home buyers prefer to live in developments with an array of housing types close to shops and mass transit, a recent survey shows.
People who are living in developments are suddenly seeing that houses similar to the house they bought just a year or two ago are now being sold now for one-third less.
His grandparents lived in the development, too, and Jason and his two siblings waited for the school bus together on a wooden bench that a neighbor had carved for them.
"You could just sit on a bench and watch the kids go up and down the slide, without a worry in mind," said Ron Williams, 57, who has lived in the development since 1994 and will not be a plaintiff.
Any children between the ages of 4 and 17, who lived in the developments, had self-reported doctor-diagnosed asthma, and who were willing to enroll in a longitudinal intervention study, were eligible.
She said that Stephon lived in the housing development, was one of four boys in his family, and liked to play basketball and video games with his friends.
The Welch family lived in a large development, and all the boys nearby congregated in the basement of the three-story house, where they goofed off and played video games.
RESIDE Participants (n = 603) who had lived in their new developments for 36 months completed a questionnaire that included items on their experiences of victimisation.
But suddenly it seemed as if half the boys that my sons, Hunter and Teddy, played with lived in enormous houses in developments all over the West Concord farmlands.
