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I am in Europe now and am an American, I’ve lived in various major cities in USA including east and west coast. I have also lived in a handful of major European
by elbigbad 4y ago
I am in Europe now and am an American, I’ve lived in various major cities in USA including east and west coast. I have also lived in a handful of major European cities. So while my opinion is anecdotal still, it’s not uninformed.
Comparatively yes, Europeans live in small cupboards by and large. There has to be some data on per capita living spaces between the two though. Largely anecdotally, I’d say people in NYC who are interns or new in careers out of school live in the same sized places that people in, for example, London or Brussels live for their entire lives, per capita speaking.
Additionally they drive much smaller cars, as you probably know.
None of this is a bad thing, it does tend to be an artifact of smaller, walkable cities and a sacrifice for that sort of thing.
- morsch 4y agoAverage living area per person in NYC is 50 m2, in Berlin it's 40 m2. http://urbancalc.com/post/NYC-Residential-Density/ http://urbancalc.com/post/NYC-Residential-Density/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/255812/umfrage/wohnflaeche-je-einwohner-in-berlin/ https://de.statista.com/statistik/daten/studie/255812/umfrag...
- elbigbad 4y agoThanks! This tracks my experience, good to hear it somewhat justified with data.
- benj111 4y agoI wouldn't describe 4/5ths the size of a house as a cupboard. 50sqm sounds small to me. Does that mean that Germans and Americans live in cupboards? Or does it mean that that people prioritise different things?
- morsch 4y ago50 m2 per person. Presumably single person households are a bit larger, and families a bit smaller than 50 m2 per member, but that's just an educated guess.