re: Anybody give it all up, and downsize?

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I agree with you, I am just in a different stage of life. I am in the last 5 years of kids in the home and soon will no longer need the space. I loved having my kids friends in my house where I could be peripheral to everything that was happening. I do not see the need (in 5 years) to keep all this extra space in my home "in case" my adult kids come to visit. The way I see it, the best thing is for mom and I to be "mobile" and go where they are. Once they get full time jobs, get married and have kids..they will be the ones who are busy. I want less not more these days.

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We designed the house with 2 beds/2.5ba down with office on main, so that once kids are grown and gone we can live on main level and have up for when their families come to visit. Right under 2700 ft2 on main which is plenty. We're pretty locked in to the community so if we were to downsize, it would be in the community, but min ft2 per covenants is 3k so never going to go any smaller than that. And moving sucks.