I've seen this reaction before and it always puzzles me. I can understand why it's (marginally) more interesting to walk down a street with varied houses than uniform ones, but not why it's better to live in such a street. If you moved to the next house along every few days specifically to get a new environment I could see the problem, but since you're only living in one house in the long term it makes little difference what the others are like when you're inside (or when you're in the hypothetical shared social space), which is almost all of the time.