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[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

You can divide 2400 square feet into an acre 18 times, but yeah... like, in most metros, even the kind of small detached single-family home you'd find in a inner-ring suburb is going to sit on a 5,000-8,000 square foot lot. Typical suburban lot sizes are more like a 1/4 acre.

This isn't to say that a McMansion on a quarter acre of land is a good thing, but just as a point of reference, if you're imagining a neighborhood of 15 to 20 homes and somebody tells you "that's about an acre" you're going to be off by an order of magnitude.

[-] TheIllustrativeMan@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Most 2000sf+ homes, even in rural areas, are 2+ stories. That would leave room for yards. Not big yards, but yards.

[-] Thrashy@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

My 750sf circa-1960 starter home in a turn-of-century streetcar suburb sits on a 7,500sf lot, and that's relatively small for the area. You'd have to be talking about urban rowhouses as seen in East Coast cities to approach anything like a 2500sf lot size for a single family home.

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world -2 points 10 months ago

You struggled with word problems in algebra classes didnt you?

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