You can buy and sell 50 sq meter apartments for a million bucks, doesn't mean I wanna live in one when all my neighbors have the full extended family living with them.
You apparently consider 9000 square feet a small area.
It’s probably a regional thing because that is a good sized lot where I live,and we all raised large families on smaller lots.
We had 5 kids and were considered a fairly small family in those days.
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