Originally Posted by Kewl X5

Well, in Southern California, land is so expensive that there many new communities that are built by "track-home" builders and the land is subdivided literally in sq. foot. There are few places left where they actually divide the land into acres in SoCal.

In my section of town, an ordinance was passed that each lot cannot be smaller than 1/2 acre which is refreshing compared to other neighborhoods where there are "cookie-cutter" homes with about 5000 sq. foot of land. There are homes in my neighborhood where the land has been subdivided by 5 acres, but that is really rare in Southern California.

For instance, one of my friends' home is about 8 years old (one of those cookie cutter homes), he has just under 3000 sq. ft in his house of livingspace and the home sits in a lot of about 8000 sq. ft. His home is worth almost $1 million.