It's wild. Granted I don't want kids, but I can't imagine wanting more than a 2 bed/2 bath. Main bedroom, guest bedroom/office, and a finished basement assuming that's feasible where I end up. Don't want to deal with cleaning more than that.
It is good that the houses are becoming less gigantic now, and I have nothing against working-class families.
From the article:
In December, Brad and Julie Redman downsized from their more-than 7,000 square-foot custom-built home to a 3,400 square-foot semi-custom model in Westfield, Ind., after their children left home.
Since 2018, the average unit size for new housing starts has decreased 10% nationally to 2,420 square feet
Sonia Mendez, a real-estate agent in the area, said she has seen builders increase construction of 1,500 to 1,700 square-foot townhomes.
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.
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