GameSetAndMath said:
Let me ask a typical American question. Do Japanese people live inside matchboxes?
What is the average size of the home of a middle income family?
The answers varies and where you live. If you live in Tokyo, apartments are very small and there are many one room apartments where it is very cramped. Rent is so high there. I've heard for a one-room apartment it's maybe $1500 a month. Maybe more.
As for a middle income family, i guess I could tell you about my place. Where I live, down south in the country, it's much more affordable. We bought our home ten years ago. You can get homes for the same size around 200k or higher, depending on location and other things. Our house sits on 210 square meters, which is a typical sized lot. Our house has four bedrooms, a living room-kitchen and a bathroom up and downstairs. We have a very small garden and parking for two cars. It's small but I've found it very liberating in that I don't have to spend all my time off cleaning up/taking care of the dang yard and inside the house. It helps us not accumulate things we don't need. It's small and when we bought the place I had my doubts but it has been a great decision for us. Compared to American homes, the houses are much smaller but as I have discovered smaller is sometimes much better!
