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I find it often interesting that people out west build houses on top of each other when there is what seems like endless miles and miles of NOTHING and then you will see these little subdivisions where houses are on 1/8th of an acre lots.
Colorado, Nevada, California all come to mind.
Being from New England this boggles my mind. we have far less empty land, but the average house lot out here is about an acre.
For me privacy and a little plot of dirt I can call my own means almost as much to me as the house does.
So if you own a house, I'm just curious, how big is your lot and where are you located? And do you wish you had more land?
Last edited by chris410; 05-22-2012 at 11:46 AM..
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I find it often interesting that people out west build houses on top of each other when there is what seems like endless miles and miles of NOTHING and then you will see these little subdivisions where houses are on 1/8th of an acre lots.
Colorado, Nevada, California all come to mind.
Being from New England this boggles my mind. we have far less empty land, but the average house lot out here is about an acre.
For me privacy and a little plot of dirt I can call my own means almost as much to me as the house does.
So if you own a house, I'm just curious, how big is your lot and where are you located? And do you wish you had more land?
The OP is from NH with the largest city being just over 100,000, Manchester. Most houses are on lots of at least 1 acre in the vast majority of the state.
The poll is screwed up missing between 1/4 to 1/2 an acre which is most common.....opps lol.
I have 1/3 an acre which is plenty to keep up with enough parks and lakes and wide sidewalks in the neighborhood I live, no need for anymore land. I contend large lots are a way to keep prices up via zoning and to keep the riff raff out of an area. Funny how the liberal east coast has those large lots....which do a nice job of economic segregation and maintaining status quo and higher values in neighborhoods with large lots.
I wasn't really speaking about cities, small lots in the cities are pretty common in all cities, i was more speaking about suburbs. Typically houses in the suburbs and rural areas of New England generally have more land then say this found out west, which i cannot quiet understand...
My house is on a .15 acre lot. So just over 1/8. Which is the standard size for most post-war homes here in SE Michigan. We consider a lot that's bigger than 1/4 to be pretty big.
You'd have to live out in a rural or wealthy area to get anything bigger than 1 acre.
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