Cities Skylines II set out to be grander, larger. They accomplished this mostly by increasing the overhaul map sizes and clearly scale has been a at least somewhat important topic for the Colossel order.

However, I cannot help but feel that the scale for a lot of things are off.

A zoning cell has a diameter of 8m. The are is about 64m.

To put this into perspective, a two lane local road has a width of 16m, including the sidewalks.
A 2x2 single family home would stand on 256m².
A 4x4 single family home occupies 1024m².
A 6x6 single family home takes up 2304m².

The average single family home in Germany used to have about 800m² - 1000m². This includes a garden and we a one family home. Today, 400m² to 600m² are common, mostly because gardens got a lot smaller.

For duplexes the area per home is smaller still, albeit "per home".

With the scale we have, a home taking up 3x3 cells would end at the upper range of the current average with 576m².

Changing gears and looking at roads, the average two lange road in a Germany neighbourhood apparently has a width of 6.5m. The span goes from 5.5 to 7.5 meters. Of this, a lane takes up 2.5m, or 5m for cars. The rest is for parking or sidewalks. Sidewalks should have about 2.5m, but from experience I can tell that in rural areas 1m is quite common, often slightly less and occasionally just on one side of the road.

As such, homes and roads seem to be way larger than they have any right to be.
If a cell had a width of 6m the numbers become more reasonable, but roads still would be wider than is common.

How are the numbers in your country and do you feel similar about the scale of things?