Off topic. According to the BBC website a new build UK house is just under a third of the size of an Australian or American house. Then in the small print it says the UK survey is based on asking owners of houses built between 2003 and 2006 located within 1hr of London. The UK has shrunk to within 1hr of London, one of the most densely populated areas in Europe. How valid is the sample and the measurement?
Can I guess that the American house survey was based on asking a man walking down a street in Lubbock, Texas who said he owned a ‘ranch’ built last year and said it is pretty big say 40 steer long. The Aussie house survey was based on the number of barbies that fit in the barbie storage room in Alice Springs and it was measured as a lot, quite a lot and a few but the biggest is 3 times more than the biggest balcony in Paddington, so there’s the answer.
It was only on the news page. Why get involved in the details if a story sounds good, plausible and might cause discontent. Wheel in Joe Egg and he’ll tell us the man in Texas wore a big hat and he thought the barbie was a valid unit in Australia and it would be non-PC to doubt either.
I guess the story is plausible. We visited Queensland and they were chopping down forest, but calling it bush, to build new houses in vast suburbs and the unbuilt land seemed to stretch endlessly beyond. Nothing like that in London. What about Sydney though?