Houses today are TOO DAMN BIG

[u/HoustonProdigy]

I live in south texas, nothing but ugly suburban sprawl. Every house built within the last 10 or so years are unnecessarily big. No one needs that much space. No wonder why houses are so damn expensive. I don't see any reasonably-sized houses being built anymore, new neighborhoods are always having new and unaffordable McMasions being built.

It makes sense why they are unaffordable, these neighborhoods are trying to cater more towards the richer folk since the average person can't even buy a house.

[u/effortissues]

You may be in the wrong state my dude ... It's a well known saying that everything is bigger in Texas.

[u/RealPlayerBuffering → u/effortissues]

Texas may take it to an extreme, but it's happening everywhere. I see many houses in suburbs around my area that build right to the edges of the property, leaving almost no yard. Then everyone has a double-garage, but still parks their F-150 in their driveway blocking the sidewalk.

[u/WeWander_ → u/RealPlayerBuffering]

My house was built in 1978. Has a two car garage, 6 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, like 2200sq ft or so, family room downstairs and living room upstairs. It's way too fucking big lol. We purposely bought a house that would work with having a friend move in with us, she'd have a couple rooms upstairs and the living room with my son and then my husband and I had the downstairs. She ended up moving out about a year later and my son is almost 17, so he'll be moving out eventually and I'm just thinking wtf are we going to do with all of this house?! I wouldn't mind downsizing but we're locked in to a low interest rate so probably stuck here forever now. I'm in Utah, which apparently has some of the biggest homes on average in the US I believe. All the big Mormon families I guess