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[quote=Anonymous][quote]  7,000 sf seems so ostentatious. All of our houses are 3,000 sf or less, and it works fine for us. Main house and beach house each around 3,000. Lake house and Mountain cabin 2200 and 2400 sf.  [/quote]

This is parody, right?

We live two in a 5500 sq foot home.    Currently with one adult kid who's been with us just under a year, and previously with a parent who was with us for a year.   Having the swing space(s) works for us.   We rarely entertain, apart from immediate family, so the assumption that we have a large house for prestige or status is silly projection.   Moreover, our current house (in a high end suburb) cost only 20% more than the selling price for our previous 2000 sq foot house (in a closer-in community that people here on DCUM drool over), so it's not an extravagance.

One of the benefits of having a very spacious primary residence is that it offers enough variety of rooms and settings that one doesn't feel the same need to get a country house (or two, apparently) for a change of scenery -- with all the attendant financial and environmental costs that entails.   We spend our weekends and summers at home; lots of people with smaller homes spend their weekends and summers driving to their beach or mountain houses (or rentals) and then come on this site to lecture about the environmental irrresponsibility of a larger house footprint.   You sort of made the same point I intended to but in a bass-ackwards kind of way.[/quote]

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