per person have you got more or less space in your home than growing up?

[Memebeingme]

more , less people

In the house generally about the same
I grew up with more people but we also had a bigger house
In the garden we definitely have more space now by a factor of about 50

Less space, more people.

Less but not hugely so. My childhood Garden was a lot bigger. Family of 4 of my own but I grew up in a family of 5. Happy with my lot.

Less. Grew up In N Ireland, huge house and 6 acres of land for less than 40K in the 80's. Never going to replicate that in England!

More grew up (2 adults, 2 kids) in a 2 bed flat sharing with my sister. One kitchen, no dining area (table in living room) & one bathroom.

bought the biggest house we could afford at the time & wanted a garden. 4 bedrooms & detached so we all have our own room (we have 3 kids) decent size separate dining room which gets used an office & we eat in the kitchen. 2 bathrooms & ensuite & a garage we converted into a playroom. I HATE the house & i’m desperate to move. The living room is small & plan was to extend but then life got in the way. The kitchen is narrow & dark & i have no utility room. Never liked the house & didn’t plan to stay long term but market crashed etc. we’re trying to move but cost at the minute & 8 years left on this puts us off especially as kids are older (8 & 12) & we’ve suffered it when they were wee but as long as i have a garden & they don’t have to share i’d be happy so have looked at 3 bed semis as even on a sofa bed i’d be happier than here! I also live over 3 floors which i hate

Less people and a lot more space. Dh is the same amount of people and more space too.

More. I always felt like I was living on top of my siblings growing up and didn’t ever feel like I had my own space so I have been really keen for my DCs to have their own space.

Much much more with 1 less person

Much more, inside and out.

Much less. Parents have a three floor house, I have a small terrace. But they struggle with the upkeep of theirs, so it's swings and roundabouts. Mine is much warmer!

More but we are in a linked terrace not a detached, but we have a park at the end of the garden and more amenities close by.

Also we are considerably further closer to London - I don't however have my Dad's generous pension. So growing up I was not so well off as my kids are and in old age I will be not so well off as my parents are

Grew up in a 2 bed flat

Now live in 4 bed house

Less.

I'm one of 4 kids. I grew up in a semi. It originally had 3 beds but my dad was a successful builder who extended it to include 4 beds and also converted the attic into an additional room. When I was 17, we moved round the corner to a detached house, which he again extended so had 5 beds and an office which could be an extra bedroom. By this time my brothers were at uni so only home for the holidays.

I'm a nurse in the NHS and married to a retired HCA, so on an average salary. No kids. We live in a 2 bed Edwardian maisonette. We'd probably have moved if we had kids but they didn't happen and as we liked the flat and the area we stayed, though are planning to move out of London, hopefully to Somerset, where I will go into semi retirement and will probably get somewhere a bit bigger eg a house instead of a flat.

Childhood - 4 people (2 adults and 2 kids) - 4 bed bungalow with (inexplicably) 1 tiny bathroom and no other WC. We lived in v small places before that.

Now - me and 3 teens in a spacious 4 bed terrace. With 3 bathrooms & 1 downstairs loo (it’s all about the bathrooms for me 😂)

Predivorce up to 3 years ago - 5 of us in a huge semi that my childhood self would have been 😲 at. But I love my current place and am hugely lucky to have it.

Much less. Live with DH in a two bed two bath home, but grew up in a huge house. I hate living in a small house and would much rather be in a big one, even though there’s only the two of us.

Much less. Grew up in a five bed house with a big garden now in a 3 bed flat with no garden. I'm in London now though and property is much cheaper in the part of the country I grew up in. We could afford a decent sized house if we moved back but couldn't do our jobs there.

Way more. Grew up in tiny 2 bed flat and now in large 4 bed detached. My kids don’t know how fortunate they are (though I try to teach them).

Much less- about 1/3 of the size. Makes me sad in some senses but it certainly takes less cleaning!

Our place now is bigger than the place my husband grew up in though. He's upgraded and I've downgraded.

Less room, more people.

Less space, less people.

Standard nuclear family in a standard nuclear family home. Mother, father, boy and girl. 3 bed semi. Living room separate from kitchen/dining room room, conservatory, decent back garden, downstairs loo and upstairs bathroom.

Now, single parent and only child. A bedroom each. One living room, one bathroom, poky little kitchen, nice size garden as we’re on a corner plot. Rented not owned. It’s a happier home, though.

Our house has same number of bedrooms as my parents, but 2 less people in my own home. So, while my parents house is larger, per person we have more space in my house (nobody shares a bedroom).

More. The house is smaller (same number of rooms but more compact) but it's only me and DD, where growing up it was 2 adults and 2 children.

Same number of people, more space. Both of us have to work though to pay for it though and one of my parents didn't.

Same number of bedrooms just slightly more living space. And 2 more bathrooms!

More, two bed maisonette and just me and DD here.

I grew up (until the age of eight) in a tiny three room flat, no kitchen or bathroom, moved to a three bed council house, but the rooms in my current house are larger.