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[quote=Anonymous]on the other hand my in-laws just bought a huge house with one of their adult children, and it's big enough that we could spend the whole weekend there with our kid and dog.

currently we just drive out and have lunch and dinner but basically the goal is to be more of a weekend country house. the kids are talking about just keeping it even when the parents pass (hopefully many decades in the future). in the mean time it's nice that our kiddo can grow up with close-knit family nearby.

i suppose when they are done with school we might assess if we want to downsize the city house, though we designed it to be age-in-place too. hard to see that far in the future, and everyone has their own relations with Things and Space that they need to work through. My silent generation parents bordered on hoarding, and their stuff only took up more and more space as they got older. I like the ability to have things with History, but am slowly getting better about letting things go. I *could* live out of a suitcase... but why would I want to?[/quote]

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