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

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more , less people

Probably similar per person - I was an only child in a 3 bed house and actually had two rooms of my own.

We have a bigger house, but I have 3 DC.

Probably around the same downstairs, more upstairs. Garden in current house is slightly less I would say.

Less space, even though the DC are grown and no longer living here.
I grew up in a larger house, with more garden.
We have fewer bedrooms and also lack things like larders and odd little rooms and spaces.

More
Fewer people too

Less. But I grew up (we moved a lot but the longest stretch house) was big - three stories and nine bedrooms. We didn't use the top floor much though, a couple lived there for a while with a makeshift kitchen after they left my Dad had a study up there, my older sister eventually moved up there, but there were three rooms that were pretty much empty and unused.
On the ground floor we had large square entrance hallway, livingroom, dining room big enough for a big table and grand piano, relatively small eat in kitchen (which my mum had painted orange walls and green ceiling - ah the 70s!), laundry room, loo and another reception room. First floor large landing leading to an unused conservatory, big playroom (would have been the master bedroom as there was an en suite), another bathroom, four other bedrooms, one which had a staircase direct to the kitchen so assume was a maids room back in the day. Then the top floor as stated. Full scary basement too with several rooms and big wheezy boiler! We used to leave the doors unlocked even when we went on holiday!
I have had big houses myself (not as big though) but now live in a cosy three bed plus small office terrace and it's perfect size for two (me and teen daughter, son no longer at home).

On paper my childhood home was bigger (more sq. Ft.) than my current home but there were more occupants. None of us had our own room and we were very overcrowded, 10 people in a 4 bed house with 1 reception room.
I have a smaller house (3 bed) but we all have our own rooms (4 occupants) and more space each.

Less space. Same number of people but siblings had their own room; two of mine share.

Fewer people and more space , but it would be more space with the same amount of people .

More people and much less space, despite earning far more than my parents (or my in laws) ever did. The kids rooms in particular are tiny - growing up I had space for a bed, wardrobe and desk, they don't - and the kitchen is also tiny.

About the same sized house, but there are more of us, so less space. No spare room, which is a nuisance.

We had a massive 6 bed detached house in a gated community back home. Only to immigrate here when mum remarried to a 2 bedroom council flat with no garden. There were 4 of us kids aged 15-8yrs sleeping in one room for a few years. We then moved to a three bed semi, which parents renovated and extended.

My early 30’s have been in a 3 bed Victorian semi. Lockdown was pretty hellish as it was far too small with the kids bouncing off the walls. I now live in a 4 bed, 2500 sqft detached house. It’s just me, 2 dc and a naughty dog. I often think this house is far too big when I’m lugging the hoover up and down stairs. But I’d never downsize we are all ND so the individual space to turtle has been absolutely necessary.

Should have said five lived in my childhood house, two currently. Also my childhood home was in a nice suburb with very good state schools and was bought on one doctors salary! My sister lives nearish, is a doctor and no way in hell could afford it now. Even if she was married to another doctor.

The same, grew up in a three bed semi and now live in a three bed semi. Got an extension on my childhood house at about 10, though, which I could desperately do with having now!

Fewer people and less space but it's mine, all mine.

Just me and mum in a small ex council house.

Now six of us in a large 5 bed detached.

About the same inside, much less outside.

Same sized space but fewer people. However my home now makes much better use of the space, in my childhood home there was a lot of unused areas and wasted space.

Less but my parent's house was a rambling old farmhouse. We didn't even use the old servant's rooms when I was a child. DH nd I have a spacious period four bed house and so we're not exactly slumming it.

Way more space. Life has been kind.

Depends…

First 10years in 2 bed flat, 2 adults and 3 kids then parents managed to buy a 6 bedroom detached house. (Couple of years in between in a 3 bed terrace).

now we are, and have been for kids whole life, in 3 bed semi.. They are in their 20s.

So early childhood far less room, older childhood much much more room… I loved our flat and we had much more disposable income than the later years and more disposable income than we have now as a family…

Much bigger house, and fewer people, but a much smaller garden (because I grew up rurally but live in London). DC have always had their own rooms, partly because I absolutely hated sharing growing up.

I grew up in a 3 bedroom terraced council house in 80s/90s. 90s value: £30k

Growing up I vowed I would go to university, get a fancy well-paying job and own my own desirable period property in north London. And I did.

It's a 3 bedroom terrace - about the same size. (Same no of people & animals)

A lot more. When I grew up, seven of us in a bungalow with two real bedrooms, one bathroom, a tiny damp room at the back and an uninsulated space in the roof. I didn't have a room of my own until I left home and went to college.

DS and I have a four bed house and half an acre between us. It makes me smile every day 🙂We have lots of visitors.

About the same. Neither very big.

More. Grew up in a 3 bed semi, 5 of us. Now 4 of us live in a 5 bed detached house. We have a dressing room, offices, a play room. My parents thought those thing were for rich people. We are not rich though!