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MaryMagdaline

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11. 1278 square feet plus unfurnished basement

Reply to True Dough (Original post)

Sun Apr 28, 2019, 04:22 PM

Apr 2019

8 children 2 parents.
Newly gentrified neighborhood in hyattsville, Maryland, 7 miles from White House. Today: basement is furnished with bedrooms and bathroom.

Georgia house: 4 bedrooms, one full and 2half baths. 1760 square feet.

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What size house (or apartment) did you grow up in? [View all] True Dough Apr 2019 OP

$139 vs $145 per Sq. Ft with the inflation adjustment. Agschmid Apr 2019 #1

Until I was 8, we lived in a 2/1 house around 900 sf TexasBushwhacker Apr 2019 #2

Tiny 1-bedrooms where my brother & I had the sofa bed. Basic LA Apr 2019 #3

We lived in the suburbs of Illinois(Naperville and Barrington) AJT Apr 2019 #4

3 br, 1 & 1/2 bath; single car garage. Parents had it built about 1957 for approximately $15-16,000. dameatball Apr 2019 #5

same except two car garage. 2 cars had become the norm by mid sixties Demovictory9 May 2019 #18

Two story, four bedroom, two and a half bath. Laffy Kat Apr 2019 #6

1300 square feet, 3 bed, 1 1/2 bath, tiny kitchen. My uncle built it for my parents. Shrike47 Apr 2019 #7

Small and then they did a really smart thing emmaverybo Apr 2019 #8

Gotta wash socks. BBL. n/t rzemanfl May 2019 #26

About 600-800 square feet. llmart Apr 2019 #9

Sounds cool in retrospect, huh. Miss life back then. Laura PourMeADrink May 2019 #17

My father and I had a discussion about houses last year happybird Apr 2019 #10

1278 square feet plus unfurnished basement MaryMagdaline Apr 2019 #11

LOL, I moved a dozen times growing up Skittles Apr 2019 #12

The house I grew up in was about 1600 sq ft csziggy Apr 2019 #13

Just two up, two down Ron Obvious Apr 2019 #14

I grew up in military quarters, too. Aristus Apr 2019 #15

I was born in 1943. Cold War Spook Apr 2019 #16

House was around 2000 sq.ft. but it was on 150 acre farm. sinkingfeeling May 2019 #19

Two-story, four-bedroom, 2 1/2 bath. About 2200 sq. feet. smirkymonkey May 2019 #20

I lived in seven homes. hunter May 2019 #21

Most of my childhood we lived in a smallish postwar-era bungalow. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2019 #22

Small town upbringing, small house benld74 May 2019 #23

A small Sears pre-fab bungalow (post WW2). femmocrat May 2019 #24

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Wonderful. MuseRider May 2019 #28

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My parents brought me home from the hospital MuseRider May 2019 #27

My maternal grandfather's old farmhouse, built in 1898 (his father's house is also still standing Glorfindel May 2019 #30

I grew up in the 50's and 60's in a German four square farm house my grandfather built. redstatebluegirl May 2019 #31