Another complicating factor was the location. One needs to ask where the houses were built: in a city, town, village, or on an isolated farm. Table 4 indicates that the largest houses tended to be built in the towns and on the isolated farms. Was this because the cities and villages tended to squeeze the houses together and thus leave less ground space for building? According to this table, the cities had house sizes similar to the village houses. At any rate, estimating standard of living based