Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 (edited) Average Home Sizes Around the World If you're traveling the world at all this summer, chances are you'll come across homes smaller than your average U.S. house. We found the above chart at the BBC (love its Josef Albers-esque aesthetics) and we converted to square feet after the jump: The article we read is about home sizes in the UK. The Brits' homes are actually the smallest, on average, for all of Europe! Here's the conversion for the chart above, alongside an Albers just for fun (remember, these are averages and reflect new homes constructed since 2003): US: 2,300sf Australia: 2,217sf Denmark: 1,475sf France: 1,216sf Spain: 1,044sf Ireland: 947sf UK: 818sf Edited September 30, 2012 by The Ropey HOFF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Hopefully next year Australian houses will go up to number one, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perthbum Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 :laugh: classic. You never disappoint Hoff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Don't forget though Australian houses only have a lifespan of 17 years, lol At this time, they all fall down and have to be rebuilt, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 :laugh: classic. You never disappoint Hoff. Its interesting for folk emigrating, they can see just how much more living space they can have when they get there, I live in a house in the UK which is twice the UK average, but I still found the houses in Australia to be a lot bigger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yup, officially we live in shoeboxes. Our new builds are hideously small. And small gardens and even smaller windows. Hate them, blot in the landscape sort of things they are :mad: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yup, officially we live in shoeboxes. Our new builds are hideously small. And small gardens and even smaller windows. Hate them, blot in the landscape sort of things they are :mad: Its just averages, I think you can get a good sized house here in the Uk for a decent price these days especially with the housing market being like it is, it's definitely a buyers market and if you have say £170k to spend you can get something nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perthbum Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yup, officially we live in shoeboxes. Our new builds are hideously small. And small gardens and even smaller windows. Hate them, blot in the landscape sort of things they are :mad: where in oz are you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fisher1 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 That's cos you don't have to worry about heating them! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
calNgary Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Don't forget though Australian houses only have a lifespan of 17 years, lol At this time, they all fall down and have to be rebuilt, lol. Well im knackered then, it was 10 years old when we bought it 5 years ago,, OMG only 2 years left until it crumbles around me, i had better up the insurance ,,lol Cal x Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perthbum Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 That's cos you don't have to worry about heating them! :laugh: you have never lived in Oz have you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
northshorepom Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 That's cos you don't have to worry about heating them! Oh yes, you do! :biggrin: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 That's cos you don't have to worry about heating them! It varies from state to state, the heating bills in Australua tend to go from being about half the price of what we pay in the UK to about the same, depending on how much air con they use, or how coldish it gets in winter, I did a thread about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 In addition: If you rent you will not only get an enormous house but it will likely have a leaking roof, be freezing cold in the winter and nothing will ever get fixed by the landlord. If you are buying then your deposit from the UK will be swallowed by the 1.5 rate of exchange and you will need to spend at least $500,000 to get anything pleasant. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blobby1000 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 That's cos you don't have to worry about heating them! You dont live here do you!! It does of course depend which state you are in, but, here in Victoria, we have never been so cold in our lives, huddled by the electric fire (no central heating and the landlord refuses to fix the wood heater) and our bills are $1400 a quarter for just electricity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 In addition: If you rent you will not only get an enormous house but it will likely have a leaking roof, be freezing cold in the winter and nothing will ever get fixed by the landlord. If you are buying then your deposit from the UK will be swallowed by the 1.5 rate of exchange and you will need to spend at least $500,000 to get anything pleasant. Come on cheer up Blobby, your coming home soon, you should be dancing a jig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 You dont live here do you!! It does of course depend which state you are in, but, here in Victoria, we have never been so cold in our lives, huddled by the electric fire (no central heating and the landlord refuses to fix the wood heater) and our bills are $1400 a quarter for just electricity. You never did your research did you, almost everyone knows its not as warm in Melbourne, you chose to go there, in Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide they have months of great weather, not too hot and in between the really hot and cooler periods and theres no need for heating and air con. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleW Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Well im knackered then, it was 10 years old when we bought it 5 years ago,, OMG only 2 years left until it crumbles around me, i had better up the insurance ,,lol Cal x We are certainly living on borrowed time as our house is 50 years old today. Will have to get some more gaffer tape out to hold it together. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Considering all the space over there they should be the biggest. I found they all actually live in quite small places, crammed into the centre, 4 houses on 1 block sort of thing and no gardens. To buy a big house in Oz you need to have more than a few million Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MicheleW Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Considering all the space over there they should be the biggest. I found they all actually live in quite small places, crammed into the centre, 4 houses on 1 block sort of thing and no gardens. To buy a big house in Oz you need to have more than a few million We have a reasonably large house with a large in ground swimming pool, double garage and stacks of spare garden 30 minutes from the centre of Brisbane by bus, and I promise you we did not spend anywhere near a million. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chardy Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Yes they are bigger, we self built our house in the UK after being cramped into the typical developers shoe box twice before and that is around 164sq.m and worth just under £300k. In Oz we can get over 200sq.m of space for less money except the garden will be about a 10th of the size here - great for the outdoor life !! Oh and it will be at least 20years behind the building standards here in the UK..................but who cares it will be in Oz, nuff said !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shell15 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 :laugh: you have never lived in Oz have you. neither have you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Shell15 Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 You dont live here do you!! It does of course depend which state you are in, but, here in Victoria, we have never been so cold in our lives, huddled by the electric fire (no central heating and the landlord refuses to fix the wood heater) and our bills are $1400 a quarter for just electricity. definitely colder down south.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Considering all the space over there they should be the biggest. I found they all actually live in quite small places, crammed into the centre, 4 houses on 1 block sort of thing and no gardens. To buy a big house in Oz you need to have more than a few million No you don't you can get a great house for $450,000 check realestate.com.au Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Ropey HOFF Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 neither have you!! Yer beat me to it, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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