Statistics will quickly tell you price has something to do with sq ft. Location is the other thing that’s highly correlated. Yes, a big house won’t make you ha

Statistics will quickly tell you price has something to do with sq ft. Location is the other thing that’s highly correlated. Yes, a big house won’t make you happy by itself. Neither will money, a girlfriend, kids (especially kids!), a bar where everyone knows your name, etc. You can be happy sharing a bedroom with two other people you don’t particularly like and you can be unhappy despite everything in your life going exactly how you hoped it would (speaking from experience here). But that’s human psychology, and I don’t think it’s useful to try and paychoanalyze why people are choosing to buy what they buy. Honestly, we all have better things to do with our time.