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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Bigger" houses are just better value. If you start looking at $/sqft, it keeps dropping as you go bigger.

Why? Because the majority of the cost is in the initial land/permits/project approval/acquisition etc etc. Whether you build 3000 sqft or 5000 sqft, the costs do not scale linearly.

So, yeah, there may be dead space in a bigger house, or rooms that "you never go into" (although, I refuse to believe that), but that's what getting built, whether you like it or not. This is one of, if not THE reason, housing has become so expensive. They keep building bigger...because well, we keep buying them. Stop buying bigger houses and the builders will downsize in a heartbeat.

p.s.[b] All these people talking about the 70s and 80s...a typical TV then was 27"...today it's 65". The typical dining table size was four chairs then...today it's six and growing. You couldn't fit your kids xboxes, PS3/4/5, BD player etc etc in a 70s house.[/b][/quote]

Not everyone wants or needs to live like that though.   We only have two tvs in our house--the largest is 42 inches and the other is slightly smaller.
We do have 6 chairs at our dining table--because we have 6 family members.   
My kids don't have X boxes and other gaming systems.

Massive tvs and gaming systems are not compulsory.  [/quote]

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