Reply #67: Higher interest rates. [View All]

[smoogatz]

As to the first part of your post, you still haven't made the case against larger houses. They take up more space? So what? They burn more resources? Maybe, maybe not. A big, efficient house in a moderate climate would burn less fuel than a medium-sized, ineddicient house in a cold or arid climate. Besides, it's really not your place to decide what kind of houses the rest of us get to live in. Sorry.

As to the "reason for the proliferation of larger houses in this country;" it's all market driven. Low interest rates and pressure on older housing stock have driven the McMansion phenomenon; it didn't just wish itself into being.