[jcommin]

After my divorce, I (we) let go of big house in the north shore neighborhood. My boys are grown. I moved into a 800 sq ft apt in Lincoln Park. Loved the neighborhood, the pace, the noise. What I didn't have was space: I had to rent a garage and a storage locker. Living there for 4 years, I decided to get more space so I am now in a town home. Like the space, like the quiet, like my neighbors. I got involved in the community association - we have block parties in the summertime and everyone looks out for each other as a matter of neighborhood safety.

I can tell you what I don't like: the stairs and location of the bathrooms in my unit. They are either on the top floor or the bottom floor. When mother nature calls, I not on either of those floors.

I'm a few years away from retiring and I'm thinking of a one floor plan.