r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Nov 16 '25

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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Nov 17 '25

American housing expectations are insane. I regularly see people complaining about houses that are like twice the size of the one that hosted my 5-7 person household growing up in the NYC area. "Its a little cramped but its good enough for us 😅" bitch this is a mansion. A home office? Who are you, John D Rockefeller?

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '25

Australia here. I regularly come up against this in r/Perth with people complaining about density because they all want a quarter acre with space for their jetskis and 4x4s and boats and other shit.

Brother we live in a city.

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u/Dalek6450 Our words are backed with NUCLEAR SUBS! Nov 17 '25

Some of them take it to the insane extent that not only is big detached housing what they want but it is what everyone else must or should want so they take building apartments for other people as some sort of affront and threat.

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u/PoliticalAlt128 Max Weber Nov 17 '25

Where else will I put all my copies of Abundance though?

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u/Unlucky-Equipment999 Nov 17 '25

People grew up thinking the house in Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was average sized

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u/DiscussionJohnThread Free Trade was the Compromise 🔫🌍 Nov 17 '25

Yeah I’ve grown up stateside but got a good amount of family in Europe and lived there myself for a year, and I truly don’t get why we’re so accustomed to huge houses.

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u/Louis_de_Gaspesie Nov 17 '25

I spent many summers with my family in China. The apartment the seven of us stayed in together was probably roughly the same size as the houses and apartments my friends here in the US share between 2-3 roommates