Flyingscottie

Smaller than US and Australia (so no doubt Canada too!)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8201900.stm

Another reason I can't WAIT to move, although I am sure I will be living in a wee flat (or CONDO!) for the first while....

Danny B

818 sq ft is the size of most peoples media room in Canada

Alan2005

They get away with it cos they sell property based on number of bedrooms rather than area. Did you know that they use special undersize furniture in show homes/flats so that the rooms look bigger than they are when you look round

elfman

at the bottom it says:

The Cabe survey questioned residents of homes built between 2003 and 2006, in London or within an hour's travel time of the capital.

so perhaps the headline should actually read

"Dwellings in SE England are on average smaller than those in other countries"

Flyingscottie

I don't think they are building them any bigger in Glasgow - and still nowhere near North American standards!

el_richo

Larger house = more cleaning, more furniture required = more expense etc etc.

I'm a condo kinda guy so maybe i'm biased

el_richo

All to do with availability of space. If everybody in the UK each lived in larger properties maybe it would keep the population down

Sally Redux

It's also quite nice to be near some facilities.

elfman

maybe not, but my parents' house in Dumfries was built in 2006 and it's pretty spacious. And the huge average house size in North America is a bit of a worry from an environmental viewpoint: The average new house in the USA has more than doubled since the 1950s - with a corresponding drain on energy resources for all the additional heating and AC.

andreip

All houses in B.C are made from wood? On mls.ca I havent come across a house built with bricks

triumphguy

OMG!!!

There's houses in Cheshire built out of cow sh!t, straw and timber and they've been around for 400 hundred years!

Wood houses work over here for many reasons! And work better than brick too.

Alan2005

Please can we not another wood/brick thread ....

dinger24

Am I not right in saying that the smallest house in the UK (as in a genuine house, not a room etc) is in Glasgow Scotland anyway?
I am currently in a house in Edinburgh and it is far to small so much so that I am not going to have flog furniture etc that I cant fit in!

andreip

I havent been to canada yet but I m really impressed with australian brick houses, do B.C houses come near to those ?

dinger24

Emm well no they are miles apart!