My wife and I have never really been ones to interact with our neighbors too much. I know some communities have that, but I think a lot of it has to do with them having kids and the kids playing together. We recently got new neighbors and I get the impression they want that sort of thing with our area, but it's mostly older folks and they just don't think that way. Anyway, my wife and I have been taking a kit downsizing our house for a while now. The market sucks though and as much as we would like a condo, most of those don't have a place to park our trailer or the HOA frowns upon stuff like that.
Parking extra vehicles and caravans is a huge factor for those who have them and dictates what house might be suitable; we have loads of storage sites for them here, I assume you do also, so that's an option but not a necessarily cheap one. Is that something you'd consider?
Yeah we have places like that, but then you have to go get it every time you want to load it and things like that. I think people do it, but it's a lot more work and shuffling. Usually the homeowners associations only let you park it outside your house for like a night before they start fining you.