There is this movie
P.S. I Love You. It's a good movie, but there is this one scene that will stay in mind forever. This chick is complaining about how she lives in a small apartment and asking when will she and her man move out into a bigger one. Now, I bet to great majority of peeps living "across the pond" this scene looks entirely normal, because they have never seen a studio apartment and in what tight spaces some people live. I and everybody who watched that scene with me LOLed real hard as for our country standards that "small apartment" was a luxury palace.
I also find it incredibly funny how Yanks have kitchens big as a house and never cook. I guess in "land of the plenty" it's not important if you need anything as long as it's big.
As for the topic itself, I kind of agree with wpegg, but it probably would require some time to get used to it, as I have lived my entire life in a house.