Size of Avg. US home over time

[faterikcartman]

I posted this in another thread:
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Death-of-the-McMansion-Era-of-cnbc-1051033821.html?x=0

Forget it, we’re going for full McMansion, hold the Mc!

[CA renter]

[quote=UCGal]I guess I’m not surprised by the house size thing. I was born in ’61 (yes, I’m old). The first house I lived in was a 4/2 1326 sf house over in Clairemont. It was plenty big for our family of 5. My dad saw a deal on a foreclosure in late 1965 and bought it… it was HUGE and remote by the standards of the time – 2016 sf. (In 1965 you could only get into University City by Regents Rd… Genesee didn’t connect and 805 and 52 were quite a few years off.)

I know that through high school 2000+ sf was considered a large house compared to my peers. Most of my friends/classmates had smaller houses – more like 13-1800sf.[/quote]

Um, UCGal, you are NOT old. I think you’re among many of your peers, or thereabouts. 😉

BTW, I’m with you on living in a smaller, older, more expensive house close to work rather than having to commute to a 3,000 sf house 100 miles away.

Thank goodness we’re all different, or there’d be NO inventory where we’re looking (it’s low enough already).

[CA renter]

[quote=UCGal]I guess I’m not surprised by the house size thing. I was born in ’61 (yes, I’m old). The first house I lived in was a 4/2 1326 sf house over in Clairemont. It was plenty big for our family of 5. My dad saw a deal on a foreclosure in late 1965 and bought it… it was HUGE and remote by the standards of the time – 2016 sf. (In 1965 you could only get into University City by Regents Rd… Genesee didn’t connect and 805 and 52 were quite a few years off.)

I know that through high school 2000+ sf was considered a large house compared to my peers. Most of my friends/classmates had smaller houses – more like 13-1800sf.[/quote]

Um, UCGal, you are NOT old. I think you’re among many of your peers, or thereabouts. 😉

BTW, I’m with you on living in a smaller, older, more expensive house close to work rather than having to commute to a 3,000 sf house 100 miles away.

Thank goodness we’re all different, or there’d be NO inventory where we’re looking (it’s low enough already).

[CA renter]

[quote=UCGal]I guess I’m not surprised by the house size thing. I was born in ’61 (yes, I’m old). The first house I lived in was a 4/2 1326 sf house over in Clairemont. It was plenty big for our family of 5. My dad saw a deal on a foreclosure in late 1965 and bought it… it was HUGE and remote by the standards of the time – 2016 sf. (In 1965 you could only get into University City by Regents Rd… Genesee didn’t connect and 805 and 52 were quite a few years off.)

I know that through high school 2000+ sf was considered a large house compared to my peers. Most of my friends/classmates had smaller houses – more like 13-1800sf.[/quote]

Um, UCGal, you are NOT old. I think you’re among many of your peers, or thereabouts. 😉

BTW, I’m with you on living in a smaller, older, more expensive house close to work rather than having to commute to a 3,000 sf house 100 miles away.

Thank goodness we’re all different, or there’d be NO inventory where we’re looking (it’s low enough already).

[CA renter]

[quote=UCGal]I guess I’m not surprised by the house size thing. I was born in ’61 (yes, I’m old). The first house I lived in was a 4/2 1326 sf house over in Clairemont. It was plenty big for our family of 5. My dad saw a deal on a foreclosure in late 1965 and bought it… it was HUGE and remote by the standards of the time – 2016 sf. (In 1965 you could only get into University City by Regents Rd… Genesee didn’t connect and 805 and 52 were quite a few years off.)

I know that through high school 2000+ sf was considered a large house compared to my peers. Most of my friends/classmates had smaller houses – more like 13-1800sf.[/quote]

Um, UCGal, you are NOT old. I think you’re among many of your peers, or thereabouts. 😉

BTW, I’m with you on living in a smaller, older, more expensive house close to work rather than having to commute to a 3,000 sf house 100 miles away.

Thank goodness we’re all different, or there’d be NO inventory where we’re looking (it’s low enough already).

[CA renter]

[quote=UCGal]I guess I’m not surprised by the house size thing. I was born in ’61 (yes, I’m old). The first house I lived in was a 4/2 1326 sf house over in Clairemont. It was plenty big for our family of 5. My dad saw a deal on a foreclosure in late 1965 and bought it… it was HUGE and remote by the standards of the time – 2016 sf. (In 1965 you could only get into University City by Regents Rd… Genesee didn’t connect and 805 and 52 were quite a few years off.)

I know that through high school 2000+ sf was considered a large house compared to my peers. Most of my friends/classmates had smaller houses – more like 13-1800sf.[/quote]

Um, UCGal, you are NOT old. I think you’re among many of your peers, or thereabouts. 😉

BTW, I’m with you on living in a smaller, older, more expensive house close to work rather than having to commute to a 3,000 sf house 100 miles away.

Thank goodness we’re all different, or there’d be NO inventory where we’re looking (it’s low enough already).

[briansd1]

A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.

[briansd1]

A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.

[briansd1]

A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.

[briansd1]

A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.

[briansd1]

A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.

[UCGal]

[quote=briansd1]A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.[/quote]

forget self storage… Look at the full garages… Your car is typically your second most expensive purchase (house being first)… Yet people park their cars outside – so they can put their boxes of cheap crap in their garages.

[UCGal]

[quote=briansd1]A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.[/quote]

forget self storage… Look at the full garages… Your car is typically your second most expensive purchase (house being first)… Yet people park their cars outside – so they can put their boxes of cheap crap in their garages.

[UCGal]

[quote=briansd1]A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.[/quote]

forget self storage… Look at the full garages… Your car is typically your second most expensive purchase (house being first)… Yet people park their cars outside – so they can put their boxes of cheap crap in their garages.

[UCGal]

[quote=briansd1]A small house is fine if it’s well designed to make use of space and keep away the clutter.

People want space because of the clutter in their houses.

It believe that it’s a lifestyle thing. Consumer goods are cheap so people buy just to keep entertained. Then they need space to keep all the junk.

The self-storage business has also exploded. I have a friend who keeps 2 self-storage units full of junk. He keep on paying every month because he can’t throw away the junk and had no time to go through it.[/quote]

forget self storage… Look at the full garages… Your car is typically your second most expensive purchase (house being first)… Yet people park their cars outside – so they can put their boxes of cheap crap in their garages.

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