It's nice to have that space for your house, but on the other hand your kids can't go to school by themselves, and neither can you jump on your bike for some shopping and be back in ten minutes.

Bigger houses and more (sometimes mandatory) parking also means everything is further apart and making cars more needed even when going between stores.

While the americans visiting me in Europe complain about the cramped streets. One of these is polite.

It's probably easier to notice the upsides of "loads of space" without living there, while the downsides are more obvious when you live there.

That's weird, I'd expect them to celebrate the walkability (never been there but I've heard it is a major advantage to your towns and cities).

As a sibling comment noted, you have to live there - in this case to get to know walkability, especially if it was a foreign concept to you...

Right, it's not that we don't want bigger houses, apartments or cars, we just can't justify it in terms of cost.

I'd love to get my wife a bigger car, so she wouldn't be scared of driving in the snow, but just buying it would be three times the price (or more) compared to the small car she's currently driving.

Plenty of room down south, we'd be happy to have you both.

Plenty of room, but no women's rights to speak of and a lot of other unlivable factors involved.

You sound prejudiced

Where's the visa? :)