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miketoronto
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So last weekend was the forum meet, and two of the guys I toured around before the official meet where from Phoenix. One of them works in real estate and had been looking at our New Homes and Condos Magazines, etc. Anyway he could not believe how small our new housing is here.
It was really funny. He could not believe people would actually live in a house that is only 1500 or 1700 sq feet, or that people would live in a condo that is only 800 sq feet.
He was telling me that in Phoenix, the average empty nesters demand at min a 2,000-3,000 sq foot house. And condos have to be atleast 1500 sq feet in most areas of Phoenix, or you will have problems selling them.
Ontop of that you have to add in the gatehouse. Most subdivisions including the ones they live in, are gatehouse protected(I think gated subdivisions is just gross).
Anyway it was interesting to see the difference between cities.
He could not believe how many condos we have here. That would not really fly in Phoenix he said, where people value space and big spaces, instead of small condos.
But then Phoenix is the city people move to, to get away from high density city life from places like NYC, Chicago, Toronto, etc. They move there to not be like us
We are so much more sustainable then many places though.
It was really funny. He could not believe people would actually live in a house that is only 1500 or 1700 sq feet, or that people would live in a condo that is only 800 sq feet.
He was telling me that in Phoenix, the average empty nesters demand at min a 2,000-3,000 sq foot house. And condos have to be atleast 1500 sq feet in most areas of Phoenix, or you will have problems selling them.
Ontop of that you have to add in the gatehouse. Most subdivisions including the ones they live in, are gatehouse protected(I think gated subdivisions is just gross).
Anyway it was interesting to see the difference between cities.
He could not believe how many condos we have here. That would not really fly in Phoenix he said, where people value space and big spaces, instead of small condos.
But then Phoenix is the city people move to, to get away from high density city life from places like NYC, Chicago, Toronto, etc. They move there to not be like us
We are so much more sustainable then many places though.