https://boards.hellobee.com/ Pregnancy, Baby and Parenting blog, by Hellobee en Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:01:17 +0000 https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398293 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:46:37 +0000 kodybear 2398293@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is average for our area but larger than our friends. The only way we were able to afford it was because we bought our previous house at the bottom and it had gained a lot of value over the last couple years. So we were lucky. Otherwise we would've been in our other house (1000sqft smaller) for a longer time. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398291 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:45:34 +0000 Greentea 2398291@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>A lot of people live in apartments where I am. It is kind of a hot thing here right now, luxury apartments. SO much less worries! High rises are popping up and cost more than homes! It is also pretty common for people to live in any type of apartment here, not just the new lovely ones. Most are 700-1000sf. Big homes aren't a thing here, unless you live in suburbs... and I don't know anyone that does! Or unless you live in the large expensive homes by the Uni... my doctor does... but a 1000sf home in my neighborhood is 300,000, I can't imagine wanting to spend more than that here, personally. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398287 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:41:23 +0000 PawPrints 2398287@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is average for our area and peer group. Real estate in our neighborhood has exploded in the last few years so I feel we are lucky to own a 3 BR/2.5-bath house here, where it's getting where the average dwelling is an apartment-style condo for the price we paid for a townhouse with yard. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398272 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:32:20 +0000 Mamasig 2398272@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>It depends on the friends. Our house is larger than most homes are friends have in our home town. But here, it's probably slightly smaller? Another factor is that we are on an acre slightly farther out from town. We have more land than house. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398239 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:17:09 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2398239@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: not really opposite, just not close to beach, close to downtown. We're walking distance from the heart of the city. The folks with bigger houses that are as close as we are spend around $3-4 million but there is a lot of smaller older housing stock that is close in, just small and generally not in great shape or recently flipped. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends/page/2#post-2398227 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 11:11:37 +0000 birdofafeather 2398227@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@bushelandapeck: 1770! That's awesome. And I'm sure a lot of work!</p> <p>@erinpye: I'm really just guessing based on feel, so it's not exact!</p> <p>@Bao: that makes sense!</p> <p>@oliviaoblivia: in our old city, almost everyone rented small places because it was so expensive to live there. Anyone that owned, it was a condo or townhome. And yeah, when we buy, we'll pick a smaller, older home in a more desirable part of town for us versus new, bigger and further from the beach! So the opposite of your city! Ha. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398185 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:49:17 +0000 WinterBee 2398185@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>@birdofafeather: I feel like our house is on the smaller side. Its a raised bungalow and about 1100 sqf. We do however have a full unfinished basement, and have plans for an extension off of the kitchen/dining room (our kitchen, dining and living room is all open concept).<br /> Once the basement is finished and the extension is on we'll be on the larger side. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398132 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:28:46 +0000 sandy 2398132@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd say average for the area and in my group of friends. Yes, there are giant houses in other neighborhoods close by but there are also smaller ones. Same goes for my group of friends - some people have larger homes and others have smaller but we're pretty much right in the middle where most everyone else is size wise </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398069 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 10:02:23 +0000 oliviaoblivia 2398069@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Very few of our friends own. Houses start around a million here so it's very hard to get into the market.<br /> Of those that own ours is the biggest, but it's still only about 1,600sf. We bought a bigger house in as-in condition and have renovated, most of our friends bought move-in condition which means much less house for more money.<br /> That's the price for our great location though. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398048 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:55:58 +0000 nana87 2398048@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our apt is bigger than most of our friends who live in the city (our closest friends in our city are single and either have 1 bedrooms or roommates) but smaller than our friends' who live in the suburbs nearby and have houses. We are so jealous of those houses, lol... </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398029 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:51:38 +0000 Alivoo01 2398029@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>For our area, it's about average.</p> <p>For our friends, we have a larger home. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2398009 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:47:47 +0000 Ash 2398009@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Larger to about the same, I'd guess. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397987 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:36:39 +0000 cascademom 2397987@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Larger since it's in the burbs. When we were city condo living, it was about average with our friends in condos. Comparing against friends who bought homes in the city, it's bigger than a Chicago bungalow. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397970 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:32:50 +0000 Bao 2397970@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably similar to both or slightly larger BUT it was a big fixer upper, and it's older so it was at a lower price point than newer smaller houses, if that makes sense. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397965 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:30:13 +0000 hilsy85 2397965@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>About the average for our friend group and maybe a bit larger than average for our area. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397959 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:27:19 +0000 snowjewelz 2397959@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Probably about the same size. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397956 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:26:33 +0000 DillonLion 2397956@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Smaller, but I'm 100% okay with that for a variety of reasons :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397952 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:22:51 +0000 csross217 2397952@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I'd say ours is about average for the neighborhood and among our friends (1900 sqft). I live in a pretty rural area, and many houses are around the same size with the difference being in year it was built and amount of land. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397949 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 09:22:05 +0000 mrsjyw 2397949@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>average in our area, larger than friends' homes; but most of my friends don't have kids yet </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397911 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:53:16 +0000 avivoca 2397911@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Average to small for the neighborhood. It's smaller than my friends homes but we all live in different neighborhoods/towns. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397908 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:50:05 +0000 Anagram 2397908@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Mayyyyybe ever so slightly larger than "average" for our town, but definitely average for our friends. Having said that, our town is an urban walking city where everyone lives in apartment/condo buildings unless they own a Brownstone (none of my close friends do because they are 2+million dollars these days). SO our place is just under 1300 sq feet and it's not considered small at all in our town. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397904 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:46:20 +0000 MOMTOLITTLEB 2397904@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Our house is bigger than most people we know but we really wanted a house we could grow into. And my husband wanted a huge yard, he and my son are always out there working and exploring. We don't travel or have expensive hobbies, we keep cars for years and years, the house is our focus. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397882 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:26:05 +0000 FaithFertility 2397882@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Little larger! We were young and pretty lucky when we purchased our home in 2009! DH had a settlement from a childhood accident and with the Obama FTHB credit it was a no brainer!!</p> <p>We were 23 and 24 engaged and for our area that is pretty young!<br /> We got a great house foreclosure Bank owned!<br /> Blessing! </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397859 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 08:00:46 +0000 winniebee 2397859@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Totally varies. Many of my friends live in Boston area and homes there are so crazy expensive, so our home is bigger than theirs. Around here, we have friends whose homes are smaller and some are larger. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397853 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:53:14 +0000 JoJoGirl 2397853@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>I would say ours is larger then many of our friends, but small for our area. We live in a really nice neighborhood with tons of ridiculously huge homes, and ours is quite modest in comparison. :) But most of my friends live in smaller places. We have more space than we need, this place was just a good deal because it's a duplex (shared wall with another home). </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397852 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:53:02 +0000 BandDmommy 2397852@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Average for our area, but larger than our friend group. There are definitely mansions around and we do not live in those. :) </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397844 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:46:52 +0000 bushelandapeck 2397844@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Ours is average for our area but larger than most of our local friends. All of the houses in our area are very old (ours was built in 1770) so that plays a big part as well. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397841 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:40:30 +0000 Adira 2397841@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>Average for our area and for our group of friends. Some have larger, some have smaller, so we're right in the middle. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397836 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:30:04 +0000 chopsuey 2397836@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>average in our area. larger than our friends' homes. </p> https://boards.hellobee.com/topic/is-your-house-smaller-average-or-larger-for-your-areafriends#post-2397832 Wed, 23 Dec 2015 07:10:43 +0000 Mrs. Lemon-Lime 2397832@https://boards.hellobee.com/ <p>We have 2600 sq ft. We seem to have the largest home of those that own vs rent houses that I have seen, but entertaining in someone's home is not the norm here. Some of our friends still rent apartments too. Our friends don't necessarily live near us either- take a hour in either direction and you'll find a pal. Once we start having play dates at home I will be a better judge as to how our home compares with others in our actual area and perhaps age. </p>