[onewhippedpuppy]

Originally Posted by IROC

We've just gone through the whole house-buying thing and we found that it's more about neighborhood than house size. When we compared the kinds of neighborhoods where we could buy a 1500-1800 sq ft house (really all we needed) we weren't happy with the location. We ended up buying a 2350 sq ft house in a nicer neighborhood.

Also for us it boiled down to number of rooms more so than absolute sq footage.

Mike, we followed exactly the same process. We wanted 4 br, 2 ba, with a basement. We ended up buying more house than we had initially planned, because the cheaper neighborhoods were often iffy.