Laugh if you will, but this is the future. People will be packed in tight. As many as two people (plus servants) will be crammed into 28,000 square foot houses. It will become even more crowded when family comes to visit.
Very good! The elite of course is exempt from the cohousing rules they want to impose on the hoi polloi. John Kerry, John Edwards and Algore get to keep their enormous mansions complete with the hired help. None of that cohousing nonsense for them. Its for the Little People.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus