Is your feeling based more on lack of resources and privacy than on small living spaces per se? I certainly sympathise with that.
I think small living spaces are good in general, as long as some personal space is maintained and privacy is available when desired.
I think of the 1500+ square feet in this house and we maybe regularly use just a couple hundred of that, mostly kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and desks. Sitting/living room used daily but just for a few hours at a time. Utility room is used occasionally.
The rest is essentially uninhabited storage. We keep a lot of stuff because we were raised frugally.
If we had private spaces for personal and family use, and shared spaces for communal use, we could probably get by with a 100-200 square feet per person.
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I think small living spaces are good in general, as long as some personal space is maintained and privacy is available when desired.
I think of the 1500+ square feet in this house and we maybe regularly use just a couple hundred of that, mostly kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and desks. Sitting/living room used daily but just for a few hours at a time. Utility room is used occasionally.
The rest is essentially uninhabited storage. We keep a lot of stuff because we were raised frugally.
If we had private spaces for personal and family use, and shared spaces for communal use, we could probably get by with a 100-200 square feet per person.