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The Great Compression - Thanks to soaring housing prices, the era of the 400-square-foot subdivision house is upon us (www.nytimes.com)
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[-] Drusas@kbin.social 13 points 9 months ago

I agree completely, but you cannot fit a two bedroom house into 400 ft².

[-] Zorque@kbin.social 14 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Depends on how you feel about sleeping upright.

[-] Delphia@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I speak metric. Did the conversion and yeah, 2 bedrooms would be a little tight unless the 2nd one was a glorified closet.

[-] stoly@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

You can but there would be compromises.

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