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We might be too young to downsize
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This is for yesterday. I missed a day.
Hubby and I spent the day looking at houses. We would like to downsize. Our house is huge... frankly too big to really keep clean with only 2-3 people living in it 80% of the time. So we went looking at new home developments in the area, hoping there was something out there for middle aged folks who wanted something smaller, but nice.
No-siree...there wasn't. Based on what we found, I have come to realize that in our suburban area if we want to downsize will will either have to buy something in a less desirable area of town or wait 9 years. Apparently we are too young to downsize.
The the two-3 bedroom houses with nice finishes are reserved for 55 and older communities! Sure there are starter houses here and there but they are finished with poorly done laminate countertops and linoleum floors. This is not the kind of thing that 40-something year olds is looking to move into. Our best bet would be to go to an area closer to the city that is gentrifying, and buy something old and redo it. That is not my idea of a good time either. Unless, I could find something that wasn't really built to be a house that I could transform into one.
The sketch above is of a neighborhood association club house that I have redrawn as a home. (I turned the sitting and storage areas into bedrooms. When I go smaller, I don't want to move into a bunch of tiny cramped rooms. Instead, I want fewer large rooms. Still that would include less square feet, but unless I am living in NYC... (long story) I don't want to live in a closet.
It seems to me that because houses are built so large in the Atlanta area, it is hard for homebuilders to fathom that homeowners might want something more reasonably sized. But even those huge houses are built poorly. In one house we looked in, the bedrooms were too small, and the closets would literally hold 10 outfits max! And that would be if the closets were packed full! Who does that?
One that I did like costs $70,000 more than what I already have and had a third floor. That would just be taking my basement space which I don't use and stacking it on top of the house... Still it was nice, but that would not be downsizing, it would be the opposite.
I don't know what we are going to do... .about a lot of things. A job assignment that would take us to New York has been put on hold. This started the whole conversation about getting a smaller house here, and getting a little tiny nest in NY. Regardless of what happens, we know that we want to downsize, but in order to do that, we will have to get a lot closer to the city to find something acceptible and then we will have to gut it to get what we need.
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