To think that some people live in too big houses?

[URSick]

Lots of people live in (in my opinion) already big houses yet they want to move into even bigger ones.
I see so many families where all the children have their own bedrooms, bathrooms, big bedroom for the parents, guest room, study, living room, and yet they never seem to be satisfied and want to move into a bigger house. They all want playroom for the children. What's the point, when they could easily play in their bedrooms or the living room? There are houses where everybody has their own level, plus bathrooms on the landings, more toilets than family members, and yet they want Buckingham palace. It's good to have enough space and not be in each other's pockets but am I the only one who thinks these people are greedy and unreasonable? You don't need to live in a mansion to be a happy family.
Not to mention those houses where entire rooms are never used, lots of space is taken up by massive stairs and there are parts of the house that are just walkways.
What's your take on it?

British sneeriness about flats- the reaction from the older generation when we had kids in a flat was akin to if we'd announced we were going to leave them in a hillside for wolves.

I think it is because there are often problems with things like use/maintenance of communal areas & gardens with flats, which you don't tend to get if you have a house. Also, flat conversions are sometimes not well sound proofed, there have been threads on here about people living in flats with children and the neighbours upstairs/downstairs complaining about the noise. Some flats are set up better than others to deal with these issues.

My counsins had a massive house. We loved it! Lots of parties, sleepovers etc. We even lived with them (with our own rooms!) between house purchases.

YANBU. People who say "it's their money and they can do whatever they want with it" or "I have worked bloody hard to buy a big house" obviously think that the rest of us who own small houses or (shock horror) rent sit on our arses all day long. It's why Tories look likely to win the elections.

I don't see your point, we have a 3 bed house with 1 baby, don't want any more kids but will be moving to a bigger house in a few years that's min 4 bed, could give us a spare room and either a playroom/a 'quiet' room etc etc. You don't know how people use their space and it's really no ones business but theirs.

How on earth does it affect you OP? You'd hate me, there's me and my daughter in a 5 bed AND she has a playroom. I'm the worst

I'm worse than you. There's me and my son in 7 bedrooms all with ensuite bathrooms. There's also 4 staff quarters in the garden that house the round the clock carers who help me look after him. In total there's 14 bathrooms in the house. The OP can shoot me now 🔫

Quite.

"I worked hard for it" and "I'll have what I like so fuck off" are non-arguments.

Donald Trump would say "I won the US Election so fuck off" but intelligent people would want to debate all the nuances of that.

The op is really about consumerism. Surely there is more to be said for reigning it in in the West than for sitting back and letting the world become even more divided?

for not having had parents or grandparents with or their own luck or sociopathic tendencies required to get to the top of the highest paid (most socially useless) professions).

hahaha
Some people really have issues! it sounds painful to be you and have such a vision of the world.

Then be consistent, you are one of the richest people on the planet: you have a roof, running water, unlimited food, access to free education and health care (I know we pay for it, but you have the same access if you don't, so really, for some people it's free). You have internet access, and obviously a computer.

Instead of looking at what you don't have, what are YOU doing to preserve resources? You are just wasting energy ranting on a forum just now.

Not at all bgmama, but if you are allowed to choose what you spend your money on, and you want to spend it on space, then why not?

Others would prefer a smaller place as they want to spend their money elsewhere, or rent because they move for employment.

I love my playroom. Moved from a small 3 bed semi to a 4 bed, 3 reception room house and I would cut off my right arm to keep living here if I had too.

Having space is amazing.

YANBU. People who say "it's their money and they can do whatever they want with it" or "I have worked bloody hard to buy a big house" obviously think that the rest of us who own small houses or (shock horror) rent sit on our arses all day long. It's why Tories look likely to win the elections.

Bollocks. Moving up the property ladder is a lot to do with luck in property market and what your priorities are - for some people it's not important to have more space and want to spend their money in other ways. Some markets it is just unaffordable to move into anything bigger. This doesn't make you, or us, bad people.

Yes. YABU and quite silly.

I didn't know teaching had become a socially useless profession. Despised, yes, but I hadn't realised we were socially useless yet.

The Op is about consumerism

No it's not. Consumerism is having a new iPhone, each, every year. About having more than 2 pair of shoes. It's about buying too much plastic wrapped food, and then wasting it and not reusing the packaging. Or redecorating your house for no good reason, or letting your kids buy loom bands or fidget spinners. Consumerism is something we are all guilty of to one extent or another regardless of the size of house we live in.

I would like a good thread on consumerism. But that is a different subject altogether.

This thread was a goady nothing thread.

Do you cook from scratch, just before midnight, after working 2 jobs, by any chance, URSick?

Your tone seems awfully familiar.

Why is buying a big house that you don't need any different to buying a new phone that you don't need?

YANBU.

I have a decent size Victorian house - it's not a mansion and I would like to extend it but the idea of room upon rooms, no thanks. My playroom is open to the living and I like watching my children play.

My dbro stayed over at a friend's house - 7 bedrooms etc etc and they were freezing, they weren't allowed to put the heating on. They slept on camp beds as the host didn't want them to sleep in the spare bedrooms as they were never used and didn't want to set them up. What's the point?

Also I CBA the cleaning.

There's three of us (well, plus two cats) living in a 4-bedroom house but I would gladly welcome two or three more, only to have an extra space to put the stinky sports gear in to dry (it can't be washed and it smells worse than a pig sty). If people can afford more rooms and are capable of maintaining the house, why shouldn't they live in it?

Although DH points out to me if I had a 7 bedroom house in my chosen location I would be able to afford a cleaner.

bibbitybobbityyhat because there's effectively an endless supply of homes but not of homes.

There is an endless supply of phones, but not if homes.

Don't want a playroom, but could really do with a music room, a library some greenhouses, a potting shed and an orangery.

Dawnedlightly, I was responding to DeanKoontz who said that having a large house isn't a show of conspicuous consumption, or consumerism. I am on the yanbu side, if you look back.

Love51 Some of the comments upthread were working on the assumption there is a housing shortage.
There is a housing shortage. No use buying a house where you can't work or get a job to pay the mortgage.

Ah yes, sorry it definitely is a conspicuous show of consumerism.

Which of these is better to buy then?

7 beds

2 beds

And why?