I was researching material for an article on housing this morning when I came across some stunning statistics. The size of Australia's new homes went from roughly 150 square metres (m2) in 1985 to c. 215 m2 in 2008. That was a rise of a little over 40% and it served put our homes top of the list in size, well ahead of the US in second place with 201 m2. What was even more interesting in the table was the size of new homes in the UK in c. 2008. That number came in at 76 m2!! It seems improbable that the size of new homes here is 3x that of the UK ... or is it? Can anyone suggest a good reason for the discrepancy, except perhaps the British have taken up building new homes for their dogs and these have inadvertently entered the statistical average!
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UK homes are smaller because it is a much smaller country than Oz with a far greater population density resulting in land being very expensive to buy and so the homes built are smaller. The positive side to this is that there is less to clean! Richard
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