Yep, even the houses I've looked at in the suburbs here are all enormous. This seems odd to me considering how people are having fewer kids these days anyway. Plus I really hate the look of the "sea of suburbia" with big box houses that have enormous garages that take up 2/3rd of the front of the house, looks ugly.

So you basically need to find a mid-sized city with houses from the mid-late 20th century when sizes were more reasonable.