There's also the peaceful sense of having a home that is not going to bankrupt you if the market takes a dive. I agree about friends and family as well. Any friends or family willing to squeeze into a smallish space together are most often the one's that are best for spending time with anyway. One of my favorite spaces in the world is my grandmother's 1000 sq ft bungalow. During the holidays, filled with twenty or more of my aunts, uncles, cousins, my brother's, his wife and daughter, there's really no other place my wife, kids and I would rather be. All the talk of tiny houses makes me realize that the spaces in which we exist are the medium for our relationships. A good balance may be 80% relationships and 20% spaces. Is Hubski a "tiny house" of the internet? Not lavishly distracting or pretentious, but functionally efficient in supporting interesting and beneficial exchanges of ideas and experiences.