Comment by syntaxing
5 days ago
> Jade and I needed a bigger house, but we really could not afford to buy (much less build) anything bigger in Palo Alto.
I’m really surprised about this, really shows how ludicrous the housing market is in the Bay Area. How high does your income need to be to afford a bigger house?!
Also considering 1400 sq ft (130 sq m) too small to raise a family is peak American... That's bigger than 99.9% of apartments people live in in Europe and raise a family just fine.
I suppose if you want to raise a family AND have a huge dedicated lan party area, then maybe 130 sqm isn't enough.
But I do agree with you. We live in a 4 bedroom detached house approx 120 sqm and this is plenty of space for a family. In fact, it's above average space out of all the families I know...
In fact, calling 1400 sq ft a bachelor pad and then complaining about housing is unaffordable there is hilarious on many levels.
The most hilarious level is that 99% of bachelors that I know spend 99% of their time in 1 room.
So they don't really need more than a studio anyway. Nor would they clean/maintain it anyway.
I live in what would be considered a large house in the UK and it’s marginally larger than that!
3/4 of Americans are overweight or obese now. We need a lot of room.
At first, my jaw was open looking at the photos.
Then I remembered… oh yeah, everything is bigger in America (especially in Texas)!
One issue with wanting a big house in Palo Alto is that most of the lots there are fairly small. There's not that many lots that can accomodate a larger home, so at best there's not many options, and sometimes there are none.
Not for a reasonable price, anyway. There are some homes that have added basements to get the space, but now we're talking something like $6 million, if not more.