[rdsubhas]

It's not about perspective. Both average to 25m2 per person, but they are vastly, unambiguously different.

In a 100m2 home: 3x15m2 bedrooms, 25m2 living room, 10m2 kitchen and you still got 20m2 left.

It's no comparison to a single 25m2 apartment where all these functions have to fit.

[zemvpferreira]

Well, to a point. If I live alone in a big city I don't necessarily need a kitchen at all. However, cooking scales more efficiently than eating out so I'll definitely want one for my family.

[jstrong]

In that sense, I guess a 100cm2 apartment is "pretty spacious" compared to a 25cm2 one. My point was that a family of four living in a 100m2 apartment is going to feel cramped.

[newaccount74]

We're a family of 5 living in 104m^2 and it doesn't feel cramped at all. Granted, we don't have a big "master bedroom" and we don't have an office or a laundry room. We also have to keep the place tidy, because it does feel cramped when there's a mess.

But it really depends on expectations. When people who live in the city visit us, they say "woah, that's a big apartment". When people who live on the countryside visit us, they say "how can you live in this tiny space".

My comment really was about how talking about "area per person" is not a good metric, because how spacious an apartment feels does not scale linearly with household size.