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People are buying larger homes; I can't deny that. And most own a home sure. But, the current supply is minimal and those who are selling are doing their best to take advantage of current market conditions by drastically overestimating property values. I know some of the biggest lenders plan on increasing mortgage rates very soon and sure property prices may have seen a temporary decrease, but clearly only to increase short-term demand. Not sure what the current conditions are in your hometown. But... I don't know 🤷‍♂️. Everything's a mess.
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Laeserin 1y ago

Younger people don't actually know what houses used to be like and it's getting harder to find 80s-style housing because it's basically illegal, now.

My first apartment was 12 m² and had a gas stove in the corner.

My uncle's apartment, that I live in for a while, had no central heat or hot water and only two bedrooms, so we kids always had to double-up. One toilet and the bathtub had a wood-fire boiler (the only heater in there 🥶), so we only bathed every couple of days. Oil stove in the dining room.

No big refrigerator or freezer, either, and laminate countertops and floors.

Then the landlord renovated it in the 90s and nearly doubled the rent.

And nobody had air conditioning. It wasn't a thing.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 1y ago

i hate aircon... makes the air inside dry and positive charged and the environment outside cold and wet

just walk around a city these days to notice how wet the microclimate is in winter

my preference for heating is old school carbon coils in quartz tubes like the original dim orange incandescent lamps... plus they give you lots of reddish IR light which i'm pretty sure is good for your health... just have to sit em close to you... and an air purifier for the dust, the air indoors in winter is abominable

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Laeserin 1y ago

I also hate air conditioning. It is one of the main reasons I left Texas. The dry air and freezing to death in the summer. 🥴

Like living in a giant refrigerator, with cold air blasting at you, all day.

I loved our new fireplace insert, in Maryland. Could heat the whole house, if we left the doors open.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Even when we moved to Texas, in the early 90s, lots of people lived in small homes, some with no air conditioning or central heat. You were doing pretty well with a rancher the size of a mobile home and a swamp cooler or whole-house fan. And lots of trailers. Most of my relatives lived in trailers.

They would have screen doors, front and back, and they would open both and let the air through, to cool.

And always only one toilet.

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Laeserin 1y ago

Remember shotgun houses?