Katsmeow
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I have come to believe that deciding to have only 1 retirement home may be a mistake. DH fairly strongly wants to have only 1 and we are planning that at this time, but I could see things changing.
We decided to downsize when he retired even though we still have 2 kids at home (at an earlier time we had 6 people at home so just having 4 is major downsize). We looked for a house that could hold 4 of us now but wouldn't be too big later.
Our current house is 2800 SF and we use every inch of it. One thing is that DH and I both spend a lot of time on our computers so having our own office space for each of us is important. We've shared it before and could again but it is really nice to not have to share. (We live in an area where people don't have basements).
The prior house was 4500 SF.
Before we bought this house we were planning to build and I spent months working on a house plan. We kept wanting to design something 2400 SF or so and kept ending up around 2800 SF...
If I was alone I would need much space, but I'm not alone.
However, I could see 20 years from now wanting something much, much smaller with less upkeep.
One thing DH and I did agree on was that we didn't want to climb stairs so this house is a one story.
We decided to downsize when he retired even though we still have 2 kids at home (at an earlier time we had 6 people at home so just having 4 is major downsize). We looked for a house that could hold 4 of us now but wouldn't be too big later.
Our current house is 2800 SF and we use every inch of it. One thing is that DH and I both spend a lot of time on our computers so having our own office space for each of us is important. We've shared it before and could again but it is really nice to not have to share. (We live in an area where people don't have basements).
The prior house was 4500 SF.
Before we bought this house we were planning to build and I spent months working on a house plan. We kept wanting to design something 2400 SF or so and kept ending up around 2800 SF...
If I was alone I would need much space, but I'm not alone.
However, I could see 20 years from now wanting something much, much smaller with less upkeep.
One thing DH and I did agree on was that we didn't want to climb stairs so this house is a one story.