The average size of a new American home these days is 2,600 square feet, double the size of houses built 40 years ago.
My neighborhood in Front Royal, Virginia, vividly depicts this statistic.
Big Houses, Broad Lawns: Some Observations From Suburbia
The average size of a new American home these days is 2,600 square feet, double the size of houses built 40 years ago.
Large lawns offer more privacy and isolation. Shutterstock
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Jeff Minick
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Jeff Minick has four children and a growing platoon of grandchildren. For 20 years, he taught history, literature, and Latin to seminars of homeschooling students in Asheville, N.C. He is the author of two novels, “Amanda Bell” and “Dust on Their Wings,” and two works of nonfiction, “Learning as I Go” and “Movies Make the Man.” Today, he lives and writes in Front Royal, Va.
