This would encourage energy conservation by forcing people to move into smaller houses.
And UK consumers like gardens, which leads to smaller houses.
Less money, smaller houses, smaller cars and smaller dreams.
The prospect of honky-tonk entertainment districts like the one in Seaside Heights, once home to the hard-partying Snooki and company of the reality show "Jersey Shore, " is anathema to many in oceanfront neighborhoods where even smaller houses can go for several million dollars.
As families have gotten smaller and houses have gotten larger, the teen room has begun to evolve into a social center in its own right in recent years.
The area still has some mansions behind tall gates, but, starting in the 1970s, smaller, boxier houses started appearing and then high-rise towers.
And now that house prices have fallen nationwide for the first time since the 1930s, home buyers no longer see their abodes as also great, leveraged investments, and want smaller, cheaper houses.
Two smaller, renovated houses overlook a pond.
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Now the houses were smaller, and there was room behind them for dilapidated bits of an old elevated railway.
Home-building was more labor-intensive then because of cruder tools and equipment, materials were harder to come by and houses were smaller because they didn't include bathrooms or kitchens.
On St Pierre a three-bed, two-bath house is 180, 000 euros, while houses on Miquelon are smaller but with more land and cost about half that.
While a handful of smaller U.S. exchanges exist today, they tend to specialize in options, and, notably in the case of the American Stock Exchange, exchange-traded funds. (See story, p. 47.) A quirk in a 1975 U.S. securities law has allowed the regional markets to trade shares listed on the New York and American exchanges in a way that is attractive to big brokerage houses, keeping the smaller bourses alive on life support.
And despite recent surveys showing a decline in consumer confidence, there are plenty of signs that consumers are still spending on cars and houses, as well as on smaller items.
However, Mersey Waste wants planing permission to modify the site and make it smaller, claiming it would take the site further away from houses.
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And with many large investment houses, most notably U.K. firms Barclays Capital and even smaller Standard Life Investments recently saying that the emerging markets have lost some steam despite high inflows to start the year, Indian equities could be in for a pull back, not an upswing.
Iraqis will also occasionally speak of smaller, more private acts of national unity, such as Sunnis caring for their Shia neighbours' houses after the latter have been run out of them by insurgents.
It houses two tables, a massive one made of oak, with 64 place settings, and a smaller one for family dining.
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And their thought on that is that they have more open space even though they have big houses, and that someone who maybe doesn't have quite as deep a pocket could build a smaller house in the county and help finance it by selling away some of these extra square footage.
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