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24 points

Ummm, either you mixed units or your parking spots are very large.

15m² is slightly less than a 4m x 4m square, that’s basically a small flat (larger than the smallest legal flat in a lot of developed countries, in fact)

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15m^2 is 5mX3m. Or ~9ft by ~15ft. Parking spots in the US are 8.5ft by 18ft.

https://asphaltindustrial.com/blogs/asphalt-industrial-blog/parking-space-dimension-guide#:~:text=The standard parking space that,8 ½ feet in width.

So actually smaller than a parking spot.

For reference, a honda civic is 6ft wide by 16ft.

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5 points

If we’re talking internationally, please don’t use fridges and shoes as measurements

WTF is that in the sizes that 97% of the planet uses? 😂

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11 points

There’s very close to 3ft in one meter so the Civic is 2Mx5M.

Thing is they included Metric at the top of their comment so I don’t know why you couldn’t extrapolate.

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7 points

Who said anything about fridges and shoes?

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I won’t downvote because obviously we should be using metric, and also it was funny. However, they put it in metric first. We can’t help you if you demand metric but can’t figure out how big that is.

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Really? You’re afraid of a little math to convert when you speak a language that decided 96 (Ninety Six) should be said four-twenty-ten-six?

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While I’m just using data from the web and not actually measuring the spots in the parking lot atm, the basic size of a parking spot is 8x16 feet (128 sq feet). That works out to just over 11m^2 if Google can be trusted with the conversion.

Larger spots can go up to 10x20 feet which would work out to just over 18m^2.

And a 4mx4m room is not a small flat, that’s a small room in a small flat. But we may have cultural differences in what we determine small here.

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larger than the smallest legal flat

I truly don’t think I can believe this. That’s exponentially tiny, smaller than my childhood bedroom and that room was 10x5ft (3 x 2) which was a single bedroom, not having to accommodate space for a toilet, shower, kitchen, counters, etc. I barely had a dresser and a twin bed in that room

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The smallest living space you’re allowed to put for sale/rent in France is 9m², and those absolutely are a thing. They’re very common for example for student housing, but also former maid quarters, especially in older buildings.

The English Housing Act considers that one person living in a 70sqft room makes it legally “overcrowded”, although there aren’t any legal minimal sizes to sell or rent a flat.

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15m2 is also 5m x 3m. Standard French parking spaces are 5m x 2.5m depending on the angle of parking.

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