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RE: small rooms in Europe

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In Reply to: RE: small rooms in Europe posted by josh358 on April 19, 2012 at 05:23:32

That is for new houses, not an averge figures. Sweden has 58 square meters per person, in average. That figure is without garages or other secondary spaces (like basements).

Roger Gustavsson

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RE: small rooms in Europe - josh358 14:08:36 04/19/12 (2)
I was able to find only information on new construction, or construction going back to 1950. Apparently, the szie of new houses in this country waxes and wanes, they fell after WW II and then grew again until the recession hit, when they started to grow again. (The house I live in is immense, and was built in 1695, when it was quite small -- just two rooms above one another and added on to in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries. It's much bigger than the newer houses in the neighborhood.)

Here are some figures:
- http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/07/research (Open in New Window)
- Hard to find any info - grantv 06:57:28 04/20/12 (1)
  I also find it interesting that Canada is not on any of the charts or lists at all. I would imagine we'd be almost identical to the US, but who knows....
  - RE: Hard to find any info - josh358 07:10:35 04/20/12 (0)
    I'd think it would be similar too. But the patterns in some of the charts I found are a bit puzzling, e.g., I would have thought that houses would be larger in less densely populated areas where land is plentiful and cheap, but within the United States, that doesn't seem to be the case. In fact, the trend towards McMansions is apparently strongest where land is relatively expensive -- a developer explained that when a large parcel of land is too costly, it's more economical to attract customers by supersizing the house.

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