A POLL ON WHAT HOUSE YOU WANT

(penthouse, 10,000 sq ft, 6,000 ft, 3,000ft, 1,500 ft homes)

Suppose you woke up tomorrow in an alternate reality where housing was built according to free market priniciples & had been for a long enough for prices & supply to stabilise. We will assume in some inexplicable way that this did not feed through to the general growth rate so we don't all get to be much wealthier in other ways. However, since long term housing costs are 4 times what they could be you get to choose 4 times more housing. Housing would be mainly modular, unloaded off the back of a few lorries over a day or 2. Like mass production car manufacture, which it would probably resemble there would also by all sorts of hi-tech optional extras of the sort currently available in Bill Gates mansion. For Gates these are expensive because it is a one off deal. If a computer run house with its own plug in lighting, heating, cooking, security, ordering from ASDA, & if desired rubbing your back & wiping your bum (separate attachments) systems were being manufactured in the hundreds of thousands they would be affordable in the hundreds of thousands.

As pointed out yesterday 34% of average disposable, after tax, income goes on housing. So if your present approx 1500 sq ft home was only going to cost you 8.5% what would you do?

Your question
	Invest the rest in share. pension fund etc just hope that pays back as well as housing once did.
	Spend it on wine, women amateur dramatics.
	Move up to a house 4 times the size.
	Move up to an automated house twice the size that cooks your meals mixes your drinks wipes your bum
	Buy one twice the size and a 2nd one in the country
	Move to beyond suburbia get a home of 6,000 sq ft
	Spend more of your income on housing build yourself a 10,000 ft mansion in the countryside
	Spend more get a penthouse flat with all the extras
	Other - please comment
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Obviously nobody is likely to take exactly any of these options but choose the closest.