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Here in the UK, about 850 sq ft is the average for a new home. Less than half. Please do not complain about having lots of room until you've had to live here :)

• refurb 14y ago
  That's one thing that amazed me when I was out in the UK. Even very nice homes are relatively small. Living rooms where you could lie on the floor and touch two walls were not uncommon. It just goes to show you how humans can adapt to most any environment. A lot of what we think we "need", we only "want".
  • EliRivers 14y ago
    I prefer to think of it as showing that the British public are idiots, fooled by the rich to think that the UK is almost all built over (seriously, it's common for people to come up with values like 50% urbanised, or even more, when they are asked to estimate; it's actually about 10%, and of that around half is gardens and other green spaces) and fed a constant barrage of propaganda about how important it is to borrow as much money as they possibly can to buy over-priced, badly built houses our grandparents would be ashamed of. I now relinquish my soapbox :p