Any living arrangement is A-OK as long as you don't have a yard for your kid.
These guys ought to have to debate Anna Quindlen. She and her hubby were happy Noo Yokk cosmopolites (theater, museums, those famous 2 a.m. bagels) until they started to talk about having kids. Priorities changed dramatically, and she began to notice -- hello -- such urban charms as discarded hypodermics in alleys. Off to suburbia went they.
Besides, what kind of parent would want his kid to grow up in hotels and turn into Al Gore?
Or Lenny Bernstein?
The automatic parking sounds great -- until you reflect that, in an emergency such as, oh, a giant urban fire or power failure, you can't retrieve your car to load it up with valuables and get the hell out of Dodge City. You're stuck, screwed. Good luck.
Urbanism is all about, you have to put up with a lot less for your money. No wonder property owners love it. (And they live out in Westchester County.)
You're joking, I hope? If there is a major incident in a dense urban area, you're stuck without a vehicle anyway due to the immediate gridlock that accompanies the event.
Thing is, if there's a large urban fire, the fire suppression systems built into such automated garages would mean it much more likely that your car would be there at the end of the emergency.