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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Strangemonkey" data-source="post: 1729726" data-attributes="member: 6533">Not a problem, I'm all for nitpickery.This is just a very quick response, but it looked to me like that survey actually complements my impression.If American households are smaller then it stands to reason that a larger percentage of the population owns homes. When the specific phenomena I was thinking of was the percentage of households that were rented as opposed to owned.Which again, if the American emphasis is on creating new households, then you would expect that number to be higher for Americans than it would be for Italians.And in a culture that had larger households, or at least a slower rate of creating new ones, you might expect to see a lower percentage of home owners as a function of population, but a higher percentage of homes being owned by residents.Which is where the theory on Italian enculturation into the US comes in.Interesting that the Spanish have both the highest rate and are also noted for large households.  Saw an article on the rates of Italian and Irish ownership vs rental recently in the Journal, I think, I'll see if I can find it sometime tomorrow.It's also worth pointing out, in relationship to your quote Eric, that it's always been my impression that it is much harder to rent in Italy than it is in the United States.</blockquote>