[ido]

google is telling me an acre is a bit more than 4000 square meter...You need 8000-20,000 square meter plot for your house & yard or am I reading something wrongly?

The house my father was born in (& my grandmother still lived in till shortly before she died) was on a ~2500 square meter plot that seemed huge to me, so much that when my father & uncle sold the property 4 more houses were built on the same plot.

From what you wrote above your house would comfortably fit in a 1000 square meter plot with enough room for a yard around it.

[TylerE]

Very large yards make for good neighbors.

[ecpottinger]

And lets you do things without bothering them either.

[ghaff]

At least in the US, many towns have minimum lot sizes. My (admittedly somewhat rural) town has a minimum of two acres and that's not at all uncommon.

[TylerE]

That sounds pretty huge, even to me. The typical American suburban neighborhood is lots of 1/4-1/3 acre or so.

[ghaff]

This is an ex-urban town. We have apple orchards and the like. Not typical suburbia but this is about an hour outside of Boston. And I'm sure there are grandfathered plots that are smaller. On the other hand, I lived in a more conventionally suburban town for a number of years and a somewhat tonier adjacent suburban town had similar lot minimums as I recall.

[fullito]

Yeah the house but my park would not fit on 1000 square meter :)