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The unit that turns dreams of space into a mortgage you regret.
means A unit of area equal to a square measuring one foot on each side, used to measure floors, rooms, and real estate listings.
from Straightforward compound of 'square,' from Latin 'exquadrare' (to make square, via Old French 'esquarre'), and 'foot,' the ancient body-based unit of length going back to Old English 'fot' — the same 'foot' you stand on, once literally someone's foot-length before it got standardized into the tidy, regrettable little box realtors multiply.
- origin
- standardized from human foot length, chaos before that
- real estate math
- price per square foot hides closet-sized bathrooms
- metric rival
- square meter equals about 10.76 square feet
- usable lie
- listed footage often includes walls and voids