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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Folks who think as you get older you need less space are young and foolish. I was also that way. My house I just bought in my mid 50's as a trade up home is 6,100 square feet, the house across the street sold a few weeks ago to a couple early 50s that is 7,000 square feet. Your fifties and sixties you need the most square footage.

My kids are not 12, 17 and 18. All at once I am hitting the car phase. Right now three cars, one more to come, Hitting dating phase while still in playdate phase. Hitting phase where friends from college come visit and in-laws too old to drive home late stay over. If anything I should have got around 7,000 square feet with a three car garage instead of two.

I have the three kids in a 1,400 square foot house with a one car driveway up till two years ago. Coming up in next 15 years I will host college graduations, engagement showers, weddings, baby showers, meeting new inlaws and son-in-laws for first time. Folks judge. I need room. When kids are little none of that happens. Then you hit mid 70s or so and it starts to slow down as that phase is behind [/quote]

You can make 1400 square feet work, but why would you want to? Live a little [/quote]
this attitude is bizarre to me. You can't "live" unless you have a house that's bigger than 3x the US average? [/quote]

You can't understand why people want more than the bare minimum  :roll: [/quote]

People always want more than they have.  Doesn’t mean that it’s healthy for the individual or the environment.[/quote]

The wanters of more drive humanity forward. Those who insist on staying where they are gradually grow irrelevant and get forgotten about.

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er, wha? There's a big difference between being driven professionally, artistically, etc. and wanting a bigger house to fill with more crap. I'd venture to say that those who minimize their lives have richer intellectual, creative, and personal lives. At least in my experience. I'm somewhere in the middle currently.[/quote]

Most of the people I know with McMansion type homes live in exurbs and don't get out of the house much.  Not an enviable life to me.[/quote]

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