re: Is This Really How People Decide How Much House They Need?

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I'd have hated having to share a room with my brother.

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I had to share a room with my brother and hated it. It's 1 thing if siblings are very close, get along well and want to share a room, but it's another if you are polar opposites and HAVE to share a room.

I told my wife before we had kids that we could have as many as she wanted, but we had to be able to buy a house big enough for all to have their own room if they so chose. Our current house is 2500 sf for 4 people. I wish the kids' rooms were slightly larger, and I'd like a GIANT bonus room, so our next house will be a little larger- 3000ish sf. If my current house had a larger yard, we wouldn't be in such a hurry to move, but we never spend any time outside because the yard is too small.

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Also each kid needs their own room. Like he really means NEEDS. He won't even look at a houses unless it has 4 bedrooms because he's got 3 boys(close in age too BTW).

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Well yeah. Not that big of a deal when they are young, but teenage boys shouldn't be sharing a room if parents can afford it.

My rents house in Belle Chasse is 3000 sqft live in with an 800sq ft garage and it is 3 bed 2.5 bath. Plenty of room. Expensive though.

I've never heard of the square foot rule. 2800 is a big house to me. The people saying it isn't that big probably don't clean their own homes. That's big. But, as far as the bedrooms go, I have 3 kids as well. Until we moved in this house, my boys always shared a room. But, now we have 4 bedrooms, I'm never going back. Life is much more peaceful.

Have family of four with one on the way and three dogs, we're comfortable in a 2200 square foot home. It could be larger, but we have four bedrooms, two and a half baths, a three car garage, huge backyard on a golf course lot. We're not home all that often either. By your colleagues rule we would need a 3500 square foot home with our new child. That's crazy talk.

Garage space is key.

It's 2015 and we live in America. I don't thibk 2800 sq feet should be considered big. We have the highest standard of living in the world, embrace it and take advantage.

<----600 sq foot house

Cost of said 600 sq foot house

Everything is bigger in Texas baw

I grew up in a house of 6 with about 2200 sf. Shared a room growing my whole life.

Now I have 2 kids and we have 3500 and I ain't going to lie it's pretty tight.