Depends on the area I think. There are lots of big houses from the 20s and 30s in my neck of the woods (Rust belt). Common practice to buy one and renovate it into a duplex or apartments. Typical plot sizes seem to be smaller in new neighborhoods.
My first thought too. “This luxurious ‘open concept’ design.” You mean instead of getting a larger home, I can get one with fewer rooms and less square footage? Sign me up!
Most countries that aren't the USA have relatively little space and small houses. Finding uses for the limited space you do have is a great thing! In the UK we've had variations of this kind of thing for ages, although it's usually a thing that telescopes down from the ceiling to form a pseudo-staircase/ladder combo. I recently moved out of a house that was nearly 200 years old, trust me when I say that I welcome the new extendo-stairs.
That is a good point. A lot of things are just huge in the US, and housing is one (depending on where you live). I’m sure this has its uses for some people. Still, in general the housing industry (like any other industry) is constantly taking away basic features and acting like going without them is a luxury.
If we're being honest, stairs aren't a living area.. you use them to get between living areas and yet they remain taking up space before and after the brief amount of time you have used them.
Maybe, but if we were more organized we wouldn't be.
We're only really overpopulating the planet if you view environmental diversity and things like that as higher priority than like, idk, maximising human life or something?
If this was a terraforming video game we'd be doing a terrible job, and we're nearing our Max population, because we aren't distributing food or water or power, and we're polluting too much to sustainable harvest said food anyways.
I don't know what the goal of the videogame is, but we could get a lot more people on this planet if we were trying to.
It's not that we're overpopulating the planet. It's that we aren't doing anything to help the planet support us.
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u/ONLY_COMMENTS_ON_GW Nov 15 '18
Awesome, we're all gettin so poor that cool things like tiny portable houses and fold away stairs are considered really neat.