5/17/2023 0 Comments Trackabout sizewiseIt's not even the physical space, it is the lack of separation from in-laws (who are generally pleasant) wish we had a basement. It's plenty of room for us, but my in-laws are moving in with us (again) pretty soon and it gets tighter with 6. townhome for our family of 4 that was well below what we were looking to spend. We had the exact opposite problem I was determined to walk to work and there were zero SFH homes within about 2 miles of my office. Ideally I would have been able to buy a 2-bedroom townhouse in the same area. It wasn't a massive inconvenience except for lawncare (to keep the neighbors happy) when I personally didn't care about the lawn. So I ended up with a 5 bedroom house with finished basement, living room and family room/den, and a big back yard. But the only houses in that end of town were big family homes. On the other hand, two decades ago when I was single and footloose I wanted a house close to work to have a short commute. I just couldn't stomach spending a million dollars on a house. At times when they were smaller, we did consider moving to a "neighborhood" with closer together houses on small 1 or 2 acre lots but at that time, prices were way too high and a "normal" house was a million dollars. Our kids loved building bike trails in the woods and riding with me on the snowmobile and such. If we stayed at the small starter home, we'd have more money now. Enough to get forest management program and save 90% on property taxes. DW and I had the goals: Big garage (there was no garage, but space to build one), big kitchen (not big, but ok) and lots of land, preferably woods (lot started a bit over 14 acres, so worked out ok. We always considered it a starter house and when the "Massachusetts Miracle" went into a downward spiral, we sold our house and bought one more than 3 times as big for a bargain. We moved from an 800 square foot house on a small, 1 acre lot, close to the road with a railroad track about 2000 feet behind us.
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