If anyone wants a calculator to convert square metres to square feet, try this one.

I'm exactly 1200 sq ft. I clicked 800-1200.

I figure I'm probably right at 800 but if you count the supposedly-shared laundry/storage room that no one else in my triplex uses, then I'm over.

Wow. We live in an 1800 sq ft home in Colorado. We live in a "small" home for the area and moved here from an 1100 sq ft condo that we thought was too small for raising a kid. And yet, we live in a "big" space compared to you city dwellers!

Thanks for the calculator, stringy! That one's getting downloaded. Big help for renovations!

waterreflecting - oh, yeah! 1800 sq ft is huge in most new yorkers' books! i live alone with my kitty cat in a 450 sq ft apt. in manhattan and do quite well. it's only when my boyfriend is over for extended periods of time am i aware of the space. i honestly wouldn't feel 'right' for a while in a 1800sq footer! :-)

waterreflecting -- Layout makes a huge difference, too; 1100 sf could indeed have been too small for a couple with a child if you had a condo with an unhelpful floor plan.

When we most recently moved, we looked at a lot of 1100-1500 sf condos that did not have adequate space for our loveseat and two armchairs in the living room -- yet our 570-sf loft easily fits them. Go figure. If your local housing stock runs new and "suburban" in character, you can easily end up going much larger than a Manhattanite or a San Franciscan, just to get the same functionality. And you don't necessarily have the option of a beautifully compact 900-sf bungalow in a neighborhood that suits you and an appropriate price range; that sort of thing is rare here and usually means either a fixer in a slum or a $1 million cottage.

I live in about 550 sq ft now, but will be moving to an apartment that is either 515 or 680, just have to choose which one.