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My reaction exactly. Americans use way too much, to be honest. 8k sq ft is more than enough for like 7+ families.
by rocgf 9y ago
My reaction exactly. Americans use way too much, to be honest. 8k sq ft is more than enough for like 7+ families.
- CalRobert 9y agoYeah.. I mean, space is nice, but in homes of 800 or so square feet I've been pretty happy. How much carbon is emitted cooling and heating an 8k sq ft home in Utah? How far do you have to drive to do things?
- archeantus 9y agoOur utility bills certainly have gone up, which we aren't thrilled with. We are considering some solar panel options to help bring our carbon footprint down. Being fully remote, I try to make up for that by not driving very much :) Overall, the valley we live in has pretty much everything we could want, from a retail perspective. A nice small-town grocery store about 3 mins away, and larger national chains further down the road.
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- _ao789 9y agoAfter living in 'cramped old london' for over a decade (still), I can only dream of the luxury of 800 Sq.m. Where do I sign up? :) fitting multiple people/families into anything less is just bad living standards as far as I'm concerned. You work hard all day long to go back to such a depressing existence. Time to start living fellow HN'ers!
- user5994461 9y agoOr time to charge more and get bigger
- scholia 9y agoWhich is why Londoners move to suburbia...
- _ao789 9y ago..and always dream of places like Spain (or better yet "Texas")
- leonroy 9y agoTime was Greater London was suburbia. Does that make Luton, St Albans etc. the 'suburbs' of London?
- scholia 9y agoSuburbia started at Aldgate, which is just outside the city walls ;-) A good rule of thumb is (or was): Does it have black cabs?
- CalRobert 9y agoEh, grass is greener. Some of us worked hard to live in lively, crowded European cities. The suburbs have their downsides. For me, it was crushing loneliness.
- scholia 9y agoYou live in the centre when you're young and single and changing jobs. You move to the suburbs when you have married, settled down and want kids, a garden, good local schools etc. When the kids have moved out, you can downsize to that retirement place in Spain... except that may not work as well after the UK leaves the EU.
- CalRobert 9y agoWell, I don't live in the UK, so there's that. I am expecting a child within a few months and hope to stay in the city; we'll see how it pans out.
- rsynnott 9y agoYeah, seems fairly ridiculous. You'd spend your life vacuuming.
- archeantus 9y agoThat was actually an onerous task at first. But I bought my wife a Neato robot vacuum a few years back and it has been such a nice thing to have.