This American does. We just don’t want to live in closets.
I understand that. The reason European houses are so small is the cost. Houses are really expensive there, so they don’t build very big houses as they couldn’t sell them....too expensive. My in’laws home is less than half the size of our home, but likely worth half again as much as ours. And wages there are not even close to wages here. I worked in Britain a few decades ago and was making peanuts compared to what my salary was here. And I had the pleasure of paying 50% of my salary there in taxes. You have to pay for all that Socialism somehow.
And I forgot to say that one of the bedrooms in my in-laws house can only fit a single bed (smaller than our single beds) and a small nightstand. The dresser is in the closet (you are expected to hang your shirts over the dresser and the other foot in the closet is for hanging dresses, etc.) It is a really nice house, but the rooms are microscopic compared to rooms in American houses.