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As long as you avoid the west coast, you should be fine as inflation adjusted price per square foot hasn't really changed [0]. [0]: https://www.supermoney.com/

• mywittyname 6y ago
  But houses across the board are much larger than before. I live in a mostly 1950s era neighborhood and the houses are tiny by America standards. Almost all of them are <1,000 sq ft, two bedroom with a one-car driveway and no garage. A modern house in much of middle America is going to be at least 2,000 sq ft, but 3,500 is certainly common, as the average size currently stands at around 2,800.
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  • vkou 6y ago
    > But houses across the board are much larger than before. The problem, of course, is that in any given neighbourhood, the price of a smaller home is nearly the same as that of a larger one.
• p1necone 6y ago
  As someone in another thread pointed out - this doesn't help because all the houses are bigger (as land price has increased while construction cost has not). You don't have the option to buy a smaller house for less.