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If these crap floorplans didn't sell people wouldn't build them. If they sold worse there'd be alternatives. I don't see why people want them but clearly they

• frankus 4y ago
  It could be a classic information asymmetry (people don't know what they want until they've lived with it, or even know that something better is possible). The same process that has turned most store-bought strawberries into freakishly-large flavorless blobs.
• neutronicus 4y ago
  People generally pick a location, set some criteria (must have X bedrooms, Y bathrooms, Z square footage, parking), see the small integer number of houses in the market in that location satisfying those criteria in-budget, and go with the one whose maintenance seems least daunting. There aren't even really enough options to be picky about floor-plan most of the time, especially if the house with the wonderful floor-plan hasn't had the roof replaced for 15 years.
  • _carbyau_ 4y ago
    ^This^ Looking to buy a home soon. Our checklist on location wipes out most of the market. IE not in floodzone, near enough to work, train station, reasonable schooling, shops. Get a solar sensible(not passive, not perfect, just vaguely right) house with those requirements? "Tell him he's dreamin'!" I haven't even got to caring about the floorplan being open or not...
• idontpost 4y ago