Even more dramatic, in the EU. Finland has almost half of households consisting of one-person homes. Germany at 41%. More than a fifth of adults live alone, in Germany.
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This is the main reason why house prices have shot up, even where the population has declined.
We are using more and more dwellings to house fewer and fewer people. Because living alone is boring and lonely, those people tend to want their dwellings extremely close to other people's dwellings, so they cluster tightly together in the urban areas, driving up the price of real estate.
So, instead of one home with 5 people in it, we have 5 homes with one person in each.
For instance,
The apartment we are moving into has 130 m² for 4 people. That gives each adult a comfortable 32,5 m²/person, with only one kitchen, living room, laundry room, and bathroom, for everyone to share. That used to be considered spacious.
This now would be considered a home for two or three people, so we would need 190 m² and twice the number of amenities, to house the same number of people, in order to meet the national living standard of 47,4 m²/person, and a bathroom for every 2 people.
don't you want to go into politics? 🤫 you would have my vote
I actually ran for office, once, and got so many votes that I refused to run again. 😂 I was just running, to help them fill their quota.
Truth, but this trend is enforced by regulations. Here, at least, those in power just keep expanding the minimum everything required for permitting, as an alternative to doing anything to slow the fall in living standards (on the Left), and as a method to squeeze supply and jack prices further (on the Right).
I remember, many years ago, visiting a Korean friend in her tiny city apartment (that she LOVED - walk to work), and then going to a Party meeting - about how they were going to make such apartments illegal because human rights.
Not, you know, building a supply of capacious apartments that doctor's wives and retired bureaucrats would see as acceptable. No, modern Left doesn't do things like that!. Just using State power to forbid builders from constructing the kind of homes that many working people want and could afford.
Yeah, my first apartment was just one room and I loved it. Can't find anything like that, anymore.
Also impossible to share an apartment with roommates.
So this is why I can't find a new apartment 🥲
Large apartments (like mine), that families like to live in, or roommates share, get broken into 2 apartments. Tiny apartments, that students and other singles like, get merged into 1 medium apartment.
That 30-100 m² size seems to be the range, where you earn the biggest return on Investment.
Fuck this. We need housing to go back to utility cost ASAP
Ngmi at this rate.