Why American Yards Are Shrinking - Cheddar Explains
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- Have you noticed that the yards of American homes have been getting a lot smaller in the last few years? It's not your imagination. Cheddar explains why lawns are shrinking across the US - and why we even have them the first place
Further Reading:
1. Trulia
www.trulia.com/research/lot-u...
2. The Atlantic
www.theatlantic.com/business/...
3. Zillow
www.zillow.com/calabasas-ca/
www.zillow.com/research/bigge...
4. MKM Research
www.moyak.com/papers/house-siz...
5. National Association of Home Builders
archive.org/details/Communit1959
6. Lawn Institute
www.thelawninstitute.org/page...
7. Rutgers
www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801...
8. Hyman
Debtor Nation, Hyman
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I've been watching my yard very closely and haven't noticed it shrinking at all
@Drukstylz 😂
Get out and mow the dang lawn... Lmao
@Drukstylz that's a good point
Yeah and I went straight from having 2 kids to 3, I wanted 2.5
Ha-ha! Need to rush to my backyard to check it out for myself!
It’s this simple: Lot sizes have gotten smaller so developers can put more houses on less land.
Exactly, they've gone from 4 to 5 new houses an acre here.
CAPITALISM WHOOOOOOOO
Houses have also gotten too big.
@@redbean9410 Crony Capitalism. In real capitalism, you would be able to buy land and build a house on it with at most enforced building codes. This has largely been stopped in urban areas by zoning and land use regulations.
@Matt Kelly I'm in Canada and have a 720 sqf house,but have a livable basement so my square footage is really doubled.It's kind of a normal house in my neighborhood from the 50's and 60's. House sits on a 4000 sqf yard,so lots of outside space.
They're building a 1500 sqf house right Next door,it looks so out of place in the area. They really are not going to have a yard after a deck and garage get put in. I walk outside my side door and all I see is a blank wall now,its depressing what people want now. These houses literally cut old close knit neighborhoods in half.
Totally missed the fact the you also no longer need a big yard for septic systems and well water connections. Back in the days, you didn’t have water or septic connections like you do today. You had to have a minimum distance between your well water and your septic field so you wouldn’t contaminate the water you drink.
This is SO TRUE.
this is actually the smartest reply in this comments section
And when when get rid of the septic system and the well you now have to service those lots with water and sanitary systems. People having larger lots means longer sanitary runs and bigger servicing systems meaning a larger expense per lot. Additionally cost of servicing has increased now that modern systems no longer combine sanitary and storm systems so huge runs of storm systems servicing the streets which service the bigger lots are more expensive. You can also lower the cost a lot on a home by spreading the cost of building roads over more lots. IOW, the costs really pile up the bigger your yard gets.
That's a good point. Also people had chicken coop and vegetable gardens. But the most crucial: LAND WAS CHEAP AND AVAILABLE.
@@thornil2231 Landis cheap and available to ever been to North Carolina
I just bought my first home at 30 during a pandemic and my thoughts were become a producer not a consumer. That led me to buy a older home with strong bones and a big yard for my pets, orchard, garden and eventually a pond.
Good choice :) live in it and fix it up at the same time ! I did that and flipped it ..I’m to old but it was a fun project !
That’s my dream!! I just want to be able to garden!
@@peppermoon7485 HE DIDN’T GET IT
I want a pond too
Being a producer is great. True wealth originates with the land. It is great to get closer to it and to be involved in what you consume.
Yes 2.5 kids
Timmy
Sally
And *legs*
Thats rasict
How do you have half a kid?
@@tara_nguyen .5 refers to a pregnant woman
just remember, .5 of a kid isn't a person, it's a crime scene.
I laughed when she said "2.5 children". I LOVE your comment. It made me laugh. Love it. Nice.
"millennials want bigger homes"
Lol at this point we just want 'homes'
@Miss Cute z...
I'd be happy to be able to afford even a 2 bedroom unit in our state but the dream is slipping further away every day.....
As a millenial with a home, I want to move back into an apartment (or maybe a condo).
I was thinking the same.
For many, simply just owning a home - even a small one - is becoming a pipe dream.
Renting a home let’s you up and leave if you want though.
This makes me feel grateful for my 1.25 acre yard. I have been trying to farm it for 4 years and its going very well.
In the area I grew up in, there was a guy who had a brilliant plan. He bought an average home in the 1960s with a double sized lot. The area was still being developed then so it was not a hard thing to do, it just cost a bit more. When he retired in the 1990s, he was able to divide the extra lot up for 2 new houses. Great retirement plan and he gets to keep his original home with its 60s sized yard.
That's something happening around here (Austria) a lot. Not as a retirement plan but just to make some money as ground costs increased immensely especially in or around bigger cities. And in other areas (mountains) you just don't have more room for house building. Lots of houses with some free yard has the ground parted and the other area is sold. In most regions here there is no lower limit of how big a ground needs to be to build.
I just bought a house like that. The other part (former garden) was AFAIK sold for half of what I paid for (older) house and the same area. There is now a two family house with only a small free patch around the house.
that table is unsettlingly tall
makes me feel like she's an 8 year old adult teaching me about land value
alnoso lol
It doesn’t help that she looks young and is playing with LEGO’s.
looks like a coffee table and she's sitting on the floor.
i imagined her kneeling the whole time
You got it wrong, she's the 0.5 child she's talking about, she's just a torso with no legs.
"Look how close these houses are"
Laughs in European
truelymadmatt my grandmas house is like giant
And japanese
Hongkong
“Laughs in European.” Is European a language?
@@GordonWaiteJr it's going to be a language one day 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
I'm a Millenial and personally would sacrifice some home for more yard. I love having outdoor space for the kids, socializing, and privacy. Having a family with little to no yard makes everyone stir crazy. Doesn't just have to be grass though. I love landscaping and having a mix of grass, foliage, and natural landscape. Some day, once the housing market calms down...
Yardwork for me would be to cut down a tree when I need some firewood. Otherwise, the forest can stay just the way it is - no need to expend countless manhours on a lawn.
Yup, just built my house this year. Told the builder "If you made the lot 20 feet deeper and 5 feet wider I would've paid an extra 50k easy.."
Why don’t you just let your kids play at a park instead. It better for a kids development to socialize with other kids then stay isolated in there back yard for there rest of there childhood. And then parents wonder why there kids aren’t social, have anxiety and deal with mental illness.
how does sacrificing indoor space for outdoor space result in more privacy
@@johnmeraz7348 Although I agree with your sentiment, it is however rather presumptuous to assume that they even have access to a public park that is nearby and safe.
One point five million dollars to have a wooden box where you can hear your neighbor pissing trough the walls? This is a peculiar form of madness
Can you piss though the walls? Wow!
@@Teporame definitely through THOSE tissue paper walls
But you are tired of so much work and commute so you do not hear them 🤣 someone must pay off the house.
For 5 million i shouldnt have neighbors
@@qh9070, welp, for 5 millions you can buy 3 and live in the one in the middle :D
"2.5 kids"
"okay jimmy, we are gonna get your legs while the neigbors will get your torso"
There's a Pewdiepie joke in there somewhere ....
Nooo...You split little Jimmy down the middle, top to bottom. THAT way, you get 2 minimum wage American workers with half a brain apiece to flip burgers at Mickey's or shuffle sh*t at an Amazon warehouse.
@@rrss5497 GENIUS!
Who's gonna get his head?
Taking care of lawns is a pain in the ass, most people only do it because everyone else does it and presures you into it, or because the HOA requires you to do it.
It would be much better I could at least put native and better adapted plants, without people thinking I'm lazy.
FRED ALFREDO sucks. Maybe a visual Barrier to stop them from looking in. I believe the urbanites are appeased by tall hedges. Then on the other side of your wall where they can’t see have fun.
Waste Less Learning Local ordinances tend to restrict visual barriers as well, under the believe that it improves safety.
HOA’s are a scam
I’m studying to be a landscape architect and these ordinances and HOA bylaws drive me wild.
It’s ideal to put the best plant in the best spot. It’s better for the environment and your wallet.
While I understand not wanting property values to fall due to your trash heap of a neighbor next door, I truly don’t understand why people want to live in cookie cutter neighborhoods. I will never want to live in a place where every home is 90% similar to the one next door
How is it a pain in the ass? you just run it over with a lawn mower every few weeks.
First time seeing this video and found it supper interesting. Thanks for sharing.
It's interesting, when I was growing up, my dad ripped up the front lawn as part of the 'lawnsteading' trend, put in fruit trees, and started to grow food. When I was a kid, I didn't actually understand how novel that was, and how few people did that, as my grandparents' generation all had victory gardens and still grew food. As time went on, the house itself became more and more surrounded by big houses on smaller parcels, but the trees grew and grew, and because it was a 1/4 acre parcel, they didn't infringe on the house space or electrical wires. Now, you couldn't pay to have the kind of diversity in that old house's yard, but some of the bigger homes have started to do similar things with terracing. I think, given enough knowledge and enough of an incentive to really invest in a house and a property, the parcel to house ratio ceases to matter as much. I just hope we start building houses that really last again, so that all that work doesn't go nowhere.
This is a great point
Look at How small our yards are now
*laughs in european*
*Laughs in British*
Ygrama DaVinci laughs in mexican
@@JarrodBaniqued No American in their right mind is going to vote for a measure (or politician) that says it will limit the size of suburban homes. The whole point of the suburbs is that that's where you can get a big house.
Density bonuses on the other hand sound like a great idea, pushing the balance between the social good of density and the economic demand for space, so people will be more incentivized to decide that they don't really need that space.
octorokpie Agreed.
@@octorokpie idk how people like living in suburbs. Every neighbor on my street has an acre, a nice sized house and it's perfect. Living too close to someone is something I never wanna do
Answer- zoning law changes allowing homes to be built closer together. Developers making more money.
Not to mention the tax base per square foot that most towns / cities LOVE. All about the money.
which is itself a change from previous zoning requiring the massive lawns that were popular in decades past.
And the developer to enact an HOA which cities also love.
Bingo!
Good! It makes things more walkable and easier to reach by bike.
As a baby boomer, I grew with in a nice size house with a nice size back yard. My dad installed a swing set and my mother could plant flowers and vegetable plants there. Miss those days.
The good old days when men were men and sheep were scared
Lol in England we have huge house shortages. You'll be happy with just a house, no gardens or front yard.
By 2050, "Get off my lawn" will be no longer relevant
by that time land price will go up so get your land now lol
No no... Actually by that time our population will start decreasing n the current world population is about 7 billion which will decrease to 4 billion by 2100... So less population more land...
@@Lightbringer_3 I hope that happens! We have limited resources, so a decrease in population would be better in the long run. We’re running into trouble w/ it now b/c of the economic system in place where we depend on a large young population in comparison to an elderly one. It seems like the only ways to fix this is for either the elderly to move on from this world, or for an overhaul of the current system to suit the current population problem some countries are facing.
"Get off my flying car docking station" doesn't have the same ring to it.
"Get off my porch!"
My life dream is to buy a house. If you have one... cherish it and take care of it because it IS a big deal.
Wow. This helped me. Thanks
Same mate same
My dream is to move back into the house I grew up in. My mom rents it out, but I can't afford the rent nor can I afford to buy it right now. I just hope she doesn't decide to sell it before I can.
I own a house. We will never own it in reality. I pay 3k in Taxes every year. Others pay more, few pay less. We will always be slaves 🍬
If you don't pay your taxes of your paid off home then in a couple of years the government takes your home. And you end up homeless living in a Van Down By The River 🏊♂️
The move away from septic systems to city sewer systems also played a big part. Prior to that, many lots had to be big to have room for the septic drain field.
Where I live near Seattle, the city forces developers to build more houses per acre to increase density. This prevents suburban sprawl into farmland and makes public transit more efficient. And they encourage us to build rental units in our backyards.
Yet Seattle has the fastest rising prices. Density doesn’t make for affordability.
@@SLow-fb3qm Did you pull that out of your ass? Seattle isn't even all that dense lmao. There simply aren't enough homes for everyone that wants to live there.
I never got watering the lawn, you just have to mow it more often. As my old man once said, "if God wants the grass watered he will make it rain."
scripture man, you get it. and whered the modern obsession with front lawns come from? like a patch of grass is a "patch of weeds gmo'd to be green and plentiful". what the absolute fuck?
🤣 wise.
Also if you live in the desert, like me, having a lawn with a grass native to Oregon (or whatever rainy place) is plain idiotic.
Because it will die if it gets scorched
@@gcsugirl So? It will eventually come back unless you are in the desert, and in the desert you should not have a lawn
@@realazduffman it won’t. Weeds will grow there.
"2.5 kids"
I'mma head out
The kid skipped leg day.
I thought half a kid was a dog
It's supposed to be the average, but it's not going to be totally close to the average
well if you have 10 kids but 4 families on average how many per each of those 4 families do you have.
10÷4=2.5
I get it's a scientific average, but I will never understand how someone could have or conceive of someone else having half a kid.
I loved that my neighbors where half a mile down the road. I don’t know how people stand being on top of one another in a city.
maybe they're kinky?
If I had money for everytime my neighbor's mother (who lives two doors down) came into my property and asked me what I'm doing...we would both be rich.
depends on who you are. maybe you don't have anything to use your lawns for so the only thing you use it for is mowing it.
Well that's you. Not everyone wants that. I do too but we don't represent the majority.
I live in a farm town 50 kms from the city and its the same thing here. Suburbs are everywhere
I’ve lived in suburbia, downtown in a glass and steel high rise, and in the country on acreage. I liked all those places for various reasons. I wish I had more lifetimes so I could experience living in other countries. Variety is the spice of life for me.
People able to understand that different does not automatically mean better or worse are a minority. Good on you!
I agree! Each option has its own benefits and deficits. Love this comment.
😍😍😍😍😍
Land Developers discovering they can sell 2 houses on 1/2 acre lots just as easily as 1 house on 1 acre lot. Answered, next.
In the block i live, they made 4 houses in an empty lot (7 years ago) that obviously all sold.
But its funny because there's at least 4 houses across that street that *each* have the same or bigger lot size of those 4 houses combined but were built 60+ years ago
Jose Flores lmao they literally did the same exact thing close to me too...and you’re right our house is like 50-60 years old has like 2-3x more land overall than one of the 4 houses built like down the street from us less than 4 years ago. 😂. That’s why when I eventually inherit our house when my parents are gone, I’m going to do whatever I can to keep the house in my possession as long as possible, even if I don’t live in it....because mark my words, not only are said older homes built to last with better quality materials, (our house is built with block inside and out, -compared to the newer houses made mostly with wood- and even the inspector said the type of wood used to make the foundation of our roof is superb quality and builders don’t use it anymore) the value of houses with larger yards/lawns will only grow and grow the more developers keep making houses with less space. Truly wealthy folks will still want that status symbol of excess land, and thus since the supply of said properties will continue to dwindle....according to normal supply/demand trends, my house will be worth more per sq ft than the newer shoddily built tacky/identical looking houses down the street.
@@twdjt6245 Lol, sadly our house isn't made of such materials but for the size of our yard and for what my parents are paying (almost done) I think they got a really good deal.
Got 2 siblings and ideally I'd want to keep our house too since I enjoy the amount of space we got and the chill neighborhood but maybe if we decide to sell it in the future, we could each use the money for our own house, but then again i really enjoy the area I live in... and more dense housing is all they're building in surrounding areas.
Jose Flores Yeap, it’s the same here in central FL. Most houses being built are just like that...barely any space compared to older properties. I live in one of those good neighborhoods where we have like individually gated houses worth millions (which have literally like acres of lawn in front of them) sitting literally across the road from houses like mine that are like upper lower - lower middle class houses and much more modest (only 1900 sq ft 4bd/2.5bth), but not far from the group of 4 houses that went up together, there’s an entire community just finished this year...they took an empty plot of land and built about 25-30 houses on it, creating one of those communities with a name and all. Seeing it go up so quickly and seeing what they’re made of etc and how little yard and back yard space they have made me really have an appreciation that my parents are the type who don’t put as much an importance on larger/newer houses...I mean not that they could afford one of them anyways....our house may have like 4x more yard space, a pool, and not that much smaller in sq ft than those newer houses, but it still cost my parents literally half the price as the STARTING price for one of those new community houses...and no HOA. It’s ridiculous to me that people are paying so much more for them, just so they can have a bigger looking and new house...even if it means being so very close to their neighbors (you wouldn’t even be able to fit a car in between these houses) , sacrificing build quality/architectural uniqueness, and that they’ll have to pay Hoa like it’s taxes or something. The goal of those developers is to build as many houses as possible as quickly as possible on whatever piece of land they’re developing on....so as soon as they realized people are insipid enough to pay the same top dollar for less overall space and tacky design, any free space in housing markets with a demand became free reign and they’re becoming richer doing just that.
Or here in Hawaii, 6 or 8 homes on one acre.
If i had to pick I’d prefer having more land over more house
Agreed.
Yup on first home and have 3 acres. Dont want neighbor up my ass
I do. I love my land. I raise sheep, chickens and Dobermans. They have the land, I have the house 🤣
@@Alex-it2nn me either. 1100 square feet of house on 2 acres.
Yea don't understand why people want to live right next to each other when especially you live in the open land.
They also don't talk about the water table. The more houses on a property in close range, uses up more water and towns dry up faster.
Thanks, Cheddar, for the insight. Excellent.
Meanwhile in Hong Kong:
*Laughs in cage house*
True
@@AtomicEy Meanwhile in *CALIFORNA*
*is homeless and addicted to ?!.!* *lives off the city*
@@luiscastanon6031 Homeless people are a thing everywhere
@@Alderath989 true but it's prominent in high cost places.
more like laughs in tears
It just baffles me that family size is going down yet we feel like we “need” more house. While we don’t use the space we do have efficiently
Natural Bella the real estate industry is hungry for money no matter who they hurt. #riseup
Natural Bella family size shrinking, but........it’s common place for people to work from home today. Homes have become offices. In addition, people own way more stuff now. When I was a kid in the 80’s, no one that I know owned a: camper, atv, boat, snowmobile, three cars, and jet ski. Now, it’s not that uncommon.
@@Uriah625 people own more stuff because they have room to store all the useless shit they never use.
Also, i'd like to see your living room if tou are storing camper vans and jetski's in there!
Hey I need somewhere to put my lego collection ha
That's the problem right there - big brother folks like you who feel as though they ought to superimpose their own values on others. What business is if of yours if others (who can afford it, mind you and aren't asking YOUR opinion or for your contribution) want to live on larger properties farther away from others? Perhaps - just perhaps - this is a reaction to people like you who wish to to become involved in others' decision-making and impinge on their liberties. Just guessing here, but I'll bet you'd have orgasms every day if every citizen was forced by law to recycle his/her household waste, wouldn't you?
My childhood home required a 15 mon walk to get from the house to the gate. It made me an anti-social kid who talked to my horse more than I did with humans.
If only more videos cited their references like Cheddar. Good on this team. Thanks for the informative videos!
Let me sum up the video before even watching it.
Land is f'ing expensive.
That isn't what the video said so maybe your summary isn't that great.
@@TheGerm24 It's the main actual reason though.
@@FlymanMS Yeah but if you watch the video they actually outline the influences that led to the increase. That's like saying you know the colloquial name of a Bird so you know everything about biology and flight...
SUPER SAMMICH no. California and the rest of the East coast is expensive. In the Midwest, the same house you can get in L.A or San Diego that cost around 300-500,000 you can get for 50-100,000 with a good size lawn. With 300-500,000 you could get a nice 4 bed with a half acre of land.
@@TheGerm24 yeah they did say that lol
Check your math. The 2019 house at 4:15 is 100% bigger, the 1970 house is what is 50% smaller! Those numbers aren’t interchangeable.
Pretty hot that you caught that. I guess the American educational system hasn't failed all of us.
@@GregoryRCosta It only failed the host!
@@MatthewWunderlich I'm going to be honest. I'm a scientist in the Boston area, but if I were given anything beyond Algebra I, I'd struggle...it's been about 17 years since I've seen geometry, Algebra II, and calc.
Noticed the same thing... maybe they weren't sure whether they wanted to say that the 2019 house was 100% bigger than the 1970 one or that the 1970 house was 50% smaller than the 2019 house, so they just went with a mix instead? :D
Or they mixed it up by accident.
Also, they suburbanised en masse in the '50's when employment started becoming stable after the war, not the '70's when life long employment was no longer guaranteed,
& strikes & financial instability became more prevalent.
Thanks for making this video!
I'm so grateful for my 5 acres. No neighbors, no traffic, just peace and quiet.
Allowing native species to colonize a lawn would mean less watering needed and more benefits to native insects. That said, not a lot of folks want (or are even allowed by draconian HOA's) to have a native lawn.
At first I thought you were talking about Native Americans.
My husband has spent most of his life mowing the lawn of his dad's lot once a week for over an hour a week and still thinks native grasslands are ugly. He doesn't mind mowing. It's just sitting, anyway. I don't care, I'll fight him over this.
I'd prefer a native type lawn. Especially if it was designed to need little to no upkeep in general.
I'd even plant flowers, at the end of the lot far from me, for the fuzzy bumblebees. It would be nice seeing them getting their food from natural plants. Instead of drinking surgery soda like they do near me.
A native lawn is what they have in the hood that shit looks gross
That’s why I’m going to keep my non-Hoa older home with great lawn-yard space in my family as long as I possibly can when my parents are gone. Mark my words, as non-hoa homes with more decent yard space become less and less common, they’ll become worth more and more than their counterparts, as some people don’t/won’t want to have to pay an HOA to be up their face.
Tldr: land is expensive
There just gave you 7 minutes of life :)
Hey, at least we get to see Ali. That's something.
So much more to analyse on this topic. Cheddar's insights are plumetting
Land is only expensive if you want it, at the same place that everyone else wants it...
Thanks.
Fine, but first subtract the 3 minutes it took me to read that.
Lawns also used to be a sign of insane wealth: that you could afford to grow a "crop" of grass and hire people to mow it using medieval tools. Other senseless expensive things we do like lavish weddings and funerals and fashion are similar. Things like renting a pineapple to appear rich fall out of favor if just anyone can afford them.
Those that tend to appear richer are more poorer because they spend all there money to maintenance something they probably don’t even use and never have time to go on vacations or spend with family.
Wow this channel answers all of my questions about america.
I dont care about lawns, i just dont want to open my bedroom window and see my neighbors brick wall 2 feet away.
we had to bolster our ‘privacy’ fence so I look out to my side of a decorated privacy fence 🤣
Better that brick wall than their living room or bathroom.
@@valiroime Some narcissistic exhibitionists next door to my old place didn't use a curtain in their bathroom, so we got a full view of buttcrack lowering to toilet.
Or you go for the European solution, which is to only have forward- or rear-facing windows. Problem solved, now you can build the houses as close as you want (even touching).
bruh they have not been to england if they think that’s small
You haven't been to Japan if you think England is small.
Xul Apostasy surprisingly most homes I stayed in while in Japan were actually the same size or bigger! Of course, flats in Japan are notoriously tiny
Jess Lucas Just go to any overpopulated developing country
Now that’s really small.
In the UK, houses tend to have most or all of the lawn at the back, with the front of the houses being much closer to the road.
ha I was just going to comment this
I grew up in a 1100 sq ft house that sat on 1 acre with a wooded lot next door and semi wooded area behind it. As kids we spent most of our free time outside exploring. I feel sorry for todays kids locked up in big houses on small lots. Even worse for those living in apartments.
"Look how small these lawns are!"
*Stares in American*
Money. More houses you can fit, more money you can make selling them. 30 second video, max.
pretty much. Seems American house developers are taking the British/European way of building; stick as many houses as possible on stamp size piece of land. Let this be a warning to you America, here in Britain, depending on the development, a lot of houses no longer have front gardens (yard) or a driveway, they cram them in together with parking space outside your door.
If you get a semi-detached, then you get a driveway, but still no garage and still a front yard the size of a stamp, the back yard is bigger but not much.
Don't let developers do this to your country.
I hate England, cram everyone together it is so claustrophobic
Infrastructure costs are another factor.
In addition to smaller lot sizes, larger houses are filling much more of the lot.
Her shaved armpits kreygasm ooohyaaaa
and who is the biggest winner of all? the tax collector, and there is your answer
Americans: Our yards are getting smaller!
Literally the east: *_Y'all have yards?_*
EDIT: By east i meant the asian east
east coast?
@@ethan.000 he either means asia or eastern europe.
😂
Also the north east: Wait, y’all’s water doesn’t taste good?
Patrick Laughing At Your Small PP, Yes, water flavor.
I own a 1970s home that was built off of farm lands and the way the lots are, the house layouts, and natural theme to the houses on my loop shows the time they were built. I was told it was too old of a house but seeing this video, I'm glad I have it. My yard IS big compared to modern subdivisions.
I'd been wondering this. Looking at aerial views of new housing districts, the houses seem to have no yards at all, which I suppose means the living room just has a slightly depressing view of the back fence.
Land is expensive because they stopped making it a few billion years ago.
The folks on the Arabian peninsula seem to have figured out how to make more.
The Netherlands is doing great in reclaiming land lol
actually it is still produced once in a while, with volcanoes, ... but it's surely compensated by the exponential human driven erosion of soil, since agriculture, and now, sea level is rising anyway.
Japan and the Netherlands have found ways the make land.
Except in Hawaii! ;)
America: why are our yards shrinking
Philippines: you got yards?!
you got houses?
@@thejewishgopnik959 Huh?
Yards are still common in provinces and in some suburban areas actually.
It depends on where you live
Oh, a sidewalk. Let's extend our house on it as well.
Great video
As an aging boomer who's been mowing lawns for years, I can assure you that my yard is definitely NOT shrinking.
🤣
You also probably live in a nice are too.
Okay boomer
As an aging Gen-Xer, I hope to own a house some day. Unfortunately, the boomers got them all.
@Rafael Dejesus Is there a charity for the humor-impaired? Or should I just send a check to _Autism Speaks?_
Born n raised in the burbs, I now live in the forest so my yard is not mine. It belongs to Bambi, Thumper, Pepe LePew, The Chipmunks and many other fine friends!
Lol
Even the Squatch?
"2.5 kids" Shows lego man without legs... 😂
Big burning questions!
I agree with you. I prefer a bigger yard than a bigger house. Both of these are hard to get in Japan, but a modest house with a nice spacious backyard is my dream.
1800s: How much Lawn do you want.
Americans: Yes, please
As it should be
@@thebeaner8609 Only if you're growing food and flowers for bees.
In the 1800's: the population was low. In 2021: overpopulated and overcrowded.
"turf grasses, vegetables that nobady eats, is the USA's largest crop in 2019" 😂
Well the midwest states had flooded fields and didn't get to plant this year.
I went from living on a 5 acre lot to an apartment and I'm depressed 😔 Smh trying to build wealth with my small business to get back to having land.
The girl in the video: feet, acres, yards...
Me: wait, what? Where are meters?
The meters are where the electrical cables go into the house.
"The average 1.5 million dollar home in this neighborhood.."
THE
WHAT
Worst part is that they're not even nice enough to be worth that
what about what?
@@hunter-ws8sx 1.5 mil is expensive
normal price in australia is 1M
Normal price for Toronto or Vancouver.
Short answer: McMansion
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McMansions actually have pretty large yards
@@JMH702 The more expensive one does. The smaller cheaper one doesn't.
**r/McMansionHell**
Good work, Ali. :)
one word: practicality. I'd rather have a big house with no lawn than a smaller house with a big lawn.
it’s not so practical when you then have to be able to afford to buy, heat, and cool and upkeep a bigger house
@@SearchIndex if i decide to buy a property, personally, then i'll have to count all of those into my budget, otherwise i wouldn't even consider buying it. i'll only buy something i can afford, WITH all the upkeep and maintenance.
I love my lawn. I tend my garden in it, teach my children in it, how social events in it, work on my projects in it, relax in it. It makes my family's life.
"A lawn represents freedom"
That's why we have a homeowners association to force you to mow it.
Right? Such a joke. Suburbia sucks ass. I understand country people and city people but the suburban folk have me lost.
I could never live in an area with an HOA
@Miss Cute that's some bougie shit
@Miss Cute Caring more about how good of a return you will get on the investment in a house (IE Increasing Property Value) than the freedom to do whatever you want with your home is *extremely* bougie.
I hate HOAs but I can see their value. My neighbors have a dog that barks all night every night, and my other new neighbors built their house at the very front edge of their front lawn, while directing their windows directly into mine. This must be the reason those things exist...
Well done
A noticeable-size lush green lawn is relaxing to look at and a small shady one doesn’t take too much mowing, watering or fertilizer . Add enough room for a flower bed and specimen plants and it’s welcoming. But here in Florida some people truck in a shell-fill.
I live on two acres riverfront and having moved from an 8,000 square foot suburban lot I can't imagine having less land than I do now going forward. Space to breathe, privacy, room for gardening, and chickens. My ultimate goal would be to live off-grid. It seems the mindset of growing your own food and learning to be self-sufficient even in small ways is making a comeback in recent years which I think is pretty awesome.
"People are not meant to live on top of another"
yea but we cant bc we are all broke
Maybe people in cities.
I’m gonna call bullshit. I rent a portion of a large converted frat house in Kansas for under three hundred dollars a month. We have a large front lawn with a garden where any of us can plant whatever we want, a paved parking lot with a basketball hoop, and a decent sized back lawn with several shade trees. I got a good deal on my rent because I’m willing to just rent part of a house. But around here, there are two bedroom homes with yards going for under six hundred dollars a month. Land is cheap. It’s just when you get close to big population centers that it starts to become expensive to have space. If you feel too broke to pay for a decent living situation, come to a small town. The cost of living is dirt cheap.
I live in a flat/apartment and i am happy. When i move out, i live with my mom 'cause i'm a minor, i will live in a flat, too. Houses are to expensive and to much work to he a home, a place to relax after work etc.
I actually love my nice big green yard n rose's... couldn't imagine living in a house without a lawn ,then again i enjoy working on my lawn n doing landscaping ,i get really nice compliments on my very green lawn...
my two-story house in the inner suburbs of a big city uses up around a third of the lot, meaning there's roughly a 50/50 split between living space and yard, excluding the driveway/frontlawn.
Having a big lawn was a status symbol way before this video depicts. Back in a more agricultural revolving time big lawns were already a thing for the rich. They showed off their wealth by planting grass instead of crops just to show they can afford it to not utilize all their land.
interesting and unsurprising that humans were like "hey look at me, im being wasteful, bask in my wealth," instead of "if i plant crops here, i can make even more money, and save even more money," i get they dont have to do that, and thats the point, but like, you dont have to be a billionaire either, thats more money than someone could ever spend, people are weird
As we got more efficient heating and better insulated houses we can afford to make them bigger.
North America has efficient heating and better insulation? 🤔😂🤣
The houses are made of cheap sticks and cast off wood pieces wrapped in plastic diapers. The furnaces are the cheapest fan motors you can find blowing warm dust at random intervals and call it "heating."
North America has the saddest and least energy efficiencent dwellings in the Western World. At least they are cheap.
@@mbogucki1 but the rent surely isn't!
Why cleaning 15 rooms every week when you actually only need two of them?
@@mbogucki1 lmao what are you talking about? where did you get these ideas?
but why do they need to be bigger?
I'd rather have more outside space
I don't just subscribe because you want me to. I subscribe because ALL the videos I see from you are what I REALLY want to see. this is just a visit because you showed up in my recommended for no apparent reason.
The big yard was the selling point for my 1970's house for sure! .45 acres (about 19,000 sq ft). 1300 sq ft house with a full basement (just needs finishing). It's a good house and more than enough space for my husband and me.
Having a unfinished basement is awesome. Our first house we bought was like that. Finished it the way we wanted. When we sold it to upgrade all the money back in equity.
"People stopped being producers and started becoming consumers."
>She's a producer.
I've always wanted 2.5 kids!
Me too I've always wanted 2 kids and a arm and a leg
Is this saying really that unfamiliar to a lot of people? It's the average for how many kids per family in the US (if those kids were born in the X or Millennial generation. These days it's closer to 1.8 - 1.9, so...more like 1 kid and one body minus a head).
@@doommagic r/woosh
I will make the half child my Manservent for life. Bwahhhhahahaha!
Yeah, me too!!
That half a kid probably would be low maintenance, and wouldn't eat much either!!;)
Same thing happening in Australia. Sub dividing original allotments. I can hear my neighbours both sides. My garden is tiny.
She likes the bush. Very nice 👌
6:57 - more like 50% of millennials want to own a home someday regardless of size.
Pretty much.
They've been screwed by the college industrial complex, saddled by debt, many with unmarketable degrees.
@@soco13466 who are the ones to blame for going in debt for a useless degree?
@@Xachremos the society that makes any job they tell you worth having, and that pays a living wage, require a degree
@@UwU_the_UwUer there are a lot of jobs that pay well that doesn't require a degree... But yeah you got to work lol. Lineman, carpenters, welders, roofers, and pretty much anything that makes something or uses their hands in a skillful way is in high demand.
I cant stand homes that are so close to each other
Jesus Bucio sane lmao
You can not live in Puerto Rico
@@omarmartinez7719 but our homes aren't even that close tho, almenos de que esté en una urbanización o en la cuidad, pero nuestras casa comoquiera no están tan pegado, y la realidad aquí venden todavía casas con mucho territorio ya que hay 1million less people here.
Sorry for the Spanglish.
I used to live on a 2 acre property in the middle of the city. It was heaven.
Then eminent domain widened the road and cut down two enormous black walnuts from the front yard. Over the next 5 years _everything_ died. The lush forest turned into a literal wasteland. Thank god we were able to sell it to some guys who wanted to cut it up into apartments... except the city ended up fucking them over two, because the property was a historical site and they wouldn't let them do anything to it...
Not much left there but scorched earth, a now sun-bleached house that is unlivable in the summer and a widened road that is barely used, how historic... Though, the backyard did survive and remain green. Mostly...
You’d suffer if you lived in Europe then lel
Here we go!
I am in the UK and love my garden because its quiet green apart from my neighbour has a pond which means loads of mosquitoes in the spring and summer which really sucks.
meanwhile in germany:
people install paving stones so they dont have to maintain the lawn.
I put down high quality fake grass, you'd never be able to tell the difference just by looking at it, and I only have to hoover it every few months ;-)
Not in this part of Germany. In the East anyway, lawns (or weed lawns) are normal, as is beautiful owner-created landscaping.
Why dont they just plant native plants?
Beautiful concrete/asphalt everywhere. First thing I did when bought my house - get rid of gardens, as much of the grass as I could. Township cant complain mow your grass, take care of plants when there isnt anyway
I would do that, except despite living a desert, the city will fine me $50/day that 70% of my yard area isn't green grass.
The cost to water the grass in the summery is on par with their fines.
Having a big yard is like on of my biggest requirements for my future home. I dont care as much about size or style but having enough outdoor room is a must for me
Way to go. You can always add on to (or rebuild) the house, you can't necessarily add on to the land.
Planning is important: I once saw a guy (down the road from where I used to live) buy a nice 4 acre lot with a crummy trailer on it. After living there and saving for a few years he spent a year having a really nice small house built. Once he moved in to that the trailer was hauled away.
@@TheOtherBill That's a good plan. Im the same way. I dont care much about house size as much as I do about having outdoor space.
@@cherylsanders5538 Another advantage is you can have an unfinished attic when you build (Cape-style home) and finish it later, or add on a breezeway and garage later.
Because you're an idiot. Sane people don't want a lawn, at all.
KuK137 she’s probably a rancher, or one of those mass gardeners who grows like an acre of plants. (Fr, I wonder why she wants such a large lawn)
I would like to sometimes go through those massively packed neighborhoods and rebuild them with the tiny homes and instead of the regular houses that they have or at least give the children smaller bedrooms the parents modest bedroom and decent size common areas
I have a 1994 house and my back lawn is considerably larger than the front while still being reasonable for maintenance
i just want my neighbors to have all the parties they want without any of that noise getting even close to me
Id love if we adapted a japanese courtyard style lawn. Instead of these giant front lawns you cant really do anything in without your neighbors watching you.
Good idea 😤, or like a mexican patio these suburbs not it
Yes! I absolutely love courtyards!
Courtyard houses are too inefficient for cold climates because the core of your house would be exposed to cold snow. Could work in the south, though
The American lawn was a snub at English nobility. It used to be lawns were only in front of very wealthy English nobles. By having most American homes have them it was a way to tell the British that the basic American was as good as their nobles. That's how it came to favor here.
I much prefer a nice large backyard. I don't need much of a front yard. Like you say, it's mostly wasted space. Personally the front just needs to be big enough to have a small driveway for cars.
Backyard gets the swimming pools, lawn, wood shed, etc. That's where the fun happens.
@@shaunofthedead3000 I agree. The front yard is just for curb appeal/pretty landscaping. The back yard is where the family lives & plays.
I like having plenty of space between houses. In my area, large lots is something you only see in older homes.
It's same here in Australia as well.
I want a huge house with a huge yard because I don't want to see what my neighbors are eating for dinner.
That's oddly specific.. 😅
@@keerthichandra376 comes from experience 🤭
I went for small house with a "huge" yard, because I could afford that.
@@hhiippiittyy congrats on the house
@@mrgallbladder
Thanks!
Seeing Calabasas makes Little Boxes start playing in my head. Thanks Weeds.
Yup, good memories!!!
as someone raised in the burbs ive never had an issue with the super close neighbours. the kids were my friends, we could easily get to each others homes, my parents became super close knit with our row of houses (checking up on each other, watching each others home when on vacation, taking turns shovelling snow/mowing the grass, even joint installed security cameras and let each other know when something was going on outside like car theft dudes or robberies.
My last home was on 0.11 acres of land, but we moved to a place where we have 0.67 acres and we're much happier with the space. The house size is only slightly larger at the new home. The biggest issue was that it felt more like we were living in an apartment before, even though they were detached homes.