I know that houses can be VERY expensive in America, don't take me wrong. In fact, the real estate market has been incredibly unfair to a lot of people the last 5 years, but I do have a question:
Why, comparatively, are houses in America twice as big as houses in Europe for the same price, in a lot of cases?
Seems to me that there's a lot of 300-400-500 sqm houses in America, while 300+ sqm houses literally are a rarity where I live (France).
In fact, for most of us, 200+ “habitable” sqm (where you can live, sorf of, so not including the garage, the cave…) is 100% considered as a big house, and you'll very frequently find them at prices comprised between 500k – 5 million euros depending on where you live if they're nice houses.
Why the difference?
nb: I obviously need to mention that I'm not taking the extremely expensive cities like Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, San Fransisco as a reference. Those cities are probably several times more expensive than your average American town.