Faced with high mortgage rates, cost-constrained Americans are embracing smaller homes

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I will say, as someone in a house with just one shower, when you have a teenage daughter, things can get accidentally awkward. I wouldn’t complain if we had a second. But overall I’m fine with smaller houses. We rented a two story house when we first moved to this town and we had a room we literally had nothing to put in. We just left it empty. No one needs a big house unless they have a big family.

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      1 year ago

      I live in Brazil. One of the classic questions we have to answer when the government is doing a census is how many bathrooms our home has. Along with other data it is one of the best indicators of how you’re doing financially. Nobody wants to have only one bathroom but nobody is building a second bathroom if they can’t afford to either. Number of phones and cars and that stuff can’t be trusted because people often buy those without being able to afford it.

      Everything else in the house can be expanded with just some extra wood and room, but bathrooms don’t lie.

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      1 year ago

      Privacy locks exist and plenty of people manage.

      I mean ensuites are nice, but they are a luxury. Especially for a first home of a single person or a new couple.

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        1 year ago

        You clearly don’t have a teenager if you think they always remember to do things like lock the bathroom door.

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          1 year ago

          I live in a multi family dwelling with 6 people including 3 teenagers with one bathroom and there’s never been an issue.

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            1 year ago

            Well then you obviously have superior teenagers to mine. How lucky for you.

            Why you’re suggesting that my awkward situations haven’t been awkward I don’t know. Maybe you know me better than I do?