05-29-2020, 05:45 PM
So we're currently living in 600sqft near downtown Wellington NZ (but up a non trivial slope, it's hilly here). I was just thinking about this yesterday.
We've lived in 250sqft in Berkeley and 1100 and 1500 sqft in Waterloo. Part of the thing is that this is temporary so we're more willing to put up with it, but the layout of the 600sqft in Wellington seems more usefully spacious than the 1100sqft in Waterloo. The 600sqft is set up as a bedroom + combined living space, whereas the 1100sqft was nominally 2br, but some of the spaces (like the living room) weren't very inviting.
We also felt like the 1100sqft had less useful storage space, although there is only a subset of my gear here.
I do feel like a lot of the downtown Toronto spaces are really quite small. Good layout helps to some extent, but it is still only 600sqft and challenging when kids are involved.
Suburban houses are sort of bigger especially these days but they're not really that big, I think, once the kids get bigger and would like to leave the house anyway.
We've lived in 250sqft in Berkeley and 1100 and 1500 sqft in Waterloo. Part of the thing is that this is temporary so we're more willing to put up with it, but the layout of the 600sqft in Wellington seems more usefully spacious than the 1100sqft in Waterloo. The 600sqft is set up as a bedroom + combined living space, whereas the 1100sqft was nominally 2br, but some of the spaces (like the living room) weren't very inviting.
We also felt like the 1100sqft had less useful storage space, although there is only a subset of my gear here.
I do feel like a lot of the downtown Toronto spaces are really quite small. Good layout helps to some extent, but it is still only 600sqft and challenging when kids are involved.
Suburban houses are sort of bigger especially these days but they're not really that big, I think, once the kids get bigger and would like to leave the house anyway.