[johnsjmc]

My wife and I sold our 2 story 4 bedroom home in the suburbs and purchased a 1000 sq ft heritage one floor home in the core area of our small city. We knocked out a wall between two bedrooms and now have an elegant small one bedroom house. Yellow brick built in 1904 with wide trim and 10 ft ceilings The lot is 40x240 and has a 2 car detached garage.
We can walk to a local grocery store and are only blocks from a small village area with resturants and a couple bars.
We consider it a condo alternative.
No HOA fees and we can hire yard work as we get older I am 64 , wife is 60.
We first were worried 1000 sf would be too small but it,s fine. As the baby boomers age the demand for giant houses has to wane.