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What the fuck? It's called a starter home. How is the existence of sane-sized singe-family or mutli-family homes supposed to be a bad thing?
Bad thing? It's not a bad thing. It's an unobtainable thing for many.
This is true, I was criticising the weird tone of the article for implying it was some great burden to only have one or two large dedicated living spaces and 100sqft bedrooms rather than three and 200. It would be a whole lot less unnatainable if 2 bedroom/1 shower, 800sqft units in a multiplex or 5-over-one were the default rather than half the size of what this article is trying to present as some bizarre abberation.
I will say, as someone in a house with just one shower, when you have a teenage daughter, things can get accidentally awkward. I wouldn't complain if we had a second. But overall I'm fine with smaller houses. We rented a two story house when we first moved to this town and we had a room we literally had nothing to put in. We just left it empty. No one needs a big house unless they have a big family.
I live in Brazil. One of the classic questions we have to answer when the government is doing a census is how many bathrooms our home has. Along with other data it is one of the best indicators of how you're doing financially. Nobody wants to have only one bathroom but nobody is building a second bathroom if they can't afford to either. Number of phones and cars and that stuff can't be trusted because people often buy those without being able to afford it.
Everything else in the house can be expanded with just some extra wood and room, but bathrooms don't lie.
Privacy locks exist and plenty of people manage.
I mean ensuites are nice, but they are a luxury. Especially for a first home of a single person or a new couple.
You clearly don't have a teenager if you think they always remember to do things like lock the bathroom door.
I live in a multi family dwelling with 6 people including 3 teenagers with one bathroom and there's never been an issue.
Well then you obviously have superior teenagers to mine. How lucky for you.
Why you're suggesting that my awkward situations haven't been awkward I don't know. Maybe you know me better than I do?
The average American house is still pretty giant, it's good to see that the size is coming down.
They stole the American dream from us.
Nah, you can still dream of owning a home. /s
"embracing"
Paywalled, but american homes are too damn big. Why can't I find an 800sq foot house? I don't need that much space.
not where im at its not.
this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2023
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