[michaelt]

I'm not talking about apartments, I'm talking about single family homes.

If you look at the Google Maps marker for New York and go 90 minutes drive north, you get this: https://maps.app.goo.gl/RY9ebS6vcD5w8cQA6

San Francisco and go 90 minutes north: https://maps.app.goo.gl/wJQx9BV5C2d7C6iR9

You look up Berlin and go 90 minutes north: https://maps.app.goo.gl/7javF29PE1p6F4rb9

Look up Paris and go 90 minutes north: https://maps.app.goo.gl/nyHut9xD4eAZnhdn9

You look up London and go 90 minutes north: https://maps.app.goo.gl/VnEWsmNHSC5pc9H98

Europe's higher population density gives them has great, walkable cities, practical public transport, good cycle-ability and plentiful bus stops.

The trade-off is smaller homes and less parking. There's a reason nobody over there drives an F-150 truck.

[bluGill]

The space between houses is smaller, and the houses have much smaller garages. However the house themselves are similar size.

[Macha]

They really aren't. My house is a 1250 sq ft 4 bedroom house. It gets comments from friends and family for being relatively large for a 4 br here, since the norm is 1000 sq ft for a 4 bedroom. Similar style houses in the US seem to be about 2000 sq ft from a property search.

[elzbardico]

Yes, even in a lot of south american countries, for a upper middle class perspective, 1000 sq ft for a four bedroom house is a bit on the small side.

[kube-system]

In the US, a 1200 sq ft or smaller home would be a post ww2 "starter home", usually 2 or 3 bedroom. Homes of this size are pretty much not being built anymore, the average size of a new home in the US has been around 2500 sq ft for decades now. The median size of all existing homes in the US sits just north of 2000 sq ft.

[michaelt]

> the houses have much smaller garages

Yes, this is what I mean when I say few Europeans have the two- or three-car garages needed for a table saw to be practical.