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> In a lot of new homes where I live the kitchens are one of the places the builders spend money. Regular people generally can't afford new homes. Working cla

> In a lot of new homes where I live the kitchens are one of the places the builders spend money. Regular people generally can't afford new homes. Working class professionals usually get shoved into apartments (usually small ones) with small kitchens in 5+1 buildings or renovated industrial buildings. Stuff like this is pretty common - https://images1.apartments.com/i2/5Wguguo1YZBzaUo30bfX2jUIY6wfpriwgayikEX-pXo/102/28grand-detroit-mi-building-photo.jpg?p=1 https://images1.apartments.com/i2/5Wguguo1YZBzaUo30bfX2jUIY6... or this one https://images1.apartments.com/i2/PuDTEuad8QYuGVJfUJAbGHCZISjR3khFzF3U_EJP7LU/102/philip-houze-detroit-mi-kitchen.jpg?p=1 https://images1.apartments.com/i2/PuDTEuad8QYuGVJfUJAbGHCZIS... It's not impossible to cook here, of course. But it's designed around the idea that most of your big meals will be "out" somewhere else.

ssharp 5y ago
Were small apartments of yesteryear more generous with their kitchen sizes? The parent comment said kitchens are getting smaller and smaller but I'm not sure if that's actually true. I lived in quite a few houses (middle / lower-middle class) growing up and it seemed like the older homes all had much smaller kitchens than the ones that weren't as old. Maybe that is happening for apartments for singles and DINKs living in urban areas where your lifestyle may be shifting towards eating at restaurants more than at home, but especially for families with kids, the trend definitely seems to be larger kitchens and kitchens that are more integrated into the home.
- zippzom 5y ago
  I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3rd the square footage of the entire apartment. Obviously that's just anecdotal but I do think that the kitchen used to be prioritized much more, at least in apartments.

ssharp 5y ago

Were small apartments of yesteryear more generous with their kitchen sizes? The parent comment said kitchens are getting smaller and smaller but I'm not sure if that's actually true. I lived in quite a few houses (middle / lower-middle class) growing up and it seemed like the older homes all had much smaller kitchens than the ones that weren't as old. Maybe that is happening for apartments for singles and DINKs living in urban areas where your lifestyle may be shifting towards eating at restaurants more than at home, but especially for families with kids, the trend definitely seems to be larger kitchens and kitchens that are more integrated into the home.

zippzom 5y ago
I live in a very old studio apartment (built in 1909) and it has a separate kitchen that is the size of the kitchen in most of my friends' single family homes. It is probably ~1/3rd the square footage of the entire apartment. Obviously that's just anecdotal but I do think that the kitchen used to be prioritized much more, at least in apartments.