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> Texas had a population of 212k in 1850 and 29 million today. How can you compare the size of a house or land ownership then to today? You are pinning your ar

> Texas had a population of 212k in 1850 and 29 million today. How can you compare the size of a house or land ownership then to today? You are pinning your argument on houses in _TEXAS_ having gotten smaller? lol bc if anything they have gotten larger.

solotronics 7y ago
At that time land was given away via grants in Texas to anyone who would live there by the hundreds of acres. Comparing that situation to land (housing) prices in a major city today is nonsensical.