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The Average Home Size in Every U.S. State

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Re: The Average Home Size in Every U.S. State

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I don't have kids so maybe that's a part of it, but anything over 1500-1600 sq ft. feels too large and like a lot of maintenance to me.

I felt similarly, with a wife and a kid even. In a 2500 sqft house, I often got frustrated because I felt like I constantly couldn't find them. 1600 was fine. We're in about 2k now, and definitely wouldn't want to go any bigger.

Having a sufficiently big home where you can get lost and feel “alone” is the principle criteria when I am looking at homes.

Re: The Average Home Size in Every U.S. State

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Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.

It's data about the US, where such units are the default.

But the audience is global...

And even in the US most of science and the engineering world now use the metric system. Imperial is largely just a public facing/public consumption unit of measure now.

Re: The Average Home Size in Every U.S. State

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Seconded...... The insistence on displaying data only in units the majority of the world has condemned to obsolescence is baffling.

It's data about the US, where such units are the default.

"it's data about the US, where such units are the default."

You change units depending on what the data is about. Thats wild

But what if your data is about the US AND UK? What do you do then ?

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