Years ago I lived in Northern England, in a town at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. The street was a long series of exactly carbon copy houses - each o

Years ago I lived in Northern England, in a town at the heart of the Industrial Revolution. The street was a long series of exactly carbon copy houses - each one exactly the same as the next, sharing one wall each all the way down the hill - one hundred houses. And when someone sold their house, everyone else knew how much their house had gone up or down in value. Today I live in a suburban “new build” where every house is different - bedrooms on this floor or that, facing this way or that, a through living room, a utility room here or a larger kitchen there. Every house is a unique snowflake and no-one knows what the price “should” be. And try learning the lessons of productivity when every house is a unique snowflake - factories don’t do that for the reasons we expect. If we want cheap housing we know how - it’s apartments 7-10 stories high, in dense urban environments. It can be nice but it’s not McMansions