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by silisili 33 days ago
That's funny, because there was a joke going around many years ago that you could tell how much money someone had by how far their couch was from the wall.

Out of curiosity, I was trying to find a source for that, but didn't find much other than old Reddit threads and a 'viral TikTok trend.'
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kqr 32 days ago
> you could tell how much money someone had by how far their couch was from the wall.

Isn't this just a proxy for room size? A couch is bulky furniture and in smaller rooms need to be tucked away. Also in smaller rooms even a pillow in the corner can see a wall-mounted TV anywhere in the room.

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silisili 32 days ago
It is, I suppose that's the joke. But now we find out Feng Shui says the folks with smaller living rooms had the right idea all along.

Anecdotally, I've lived in both types of setups and vastly prefer layouts conducive to seating against the wall, regardless of room size.

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