Something like that might work for me if there was a house plan small enough…both for cost but also, I just don’t need more space than I’d have in a smallish apartment, but I do like the idea of my own casita and my own small green space outside the door and community activities to join in on.
Oddly, NYC actually does have its appeal, IF affordable….and kinda close to a park? I do love the Highline but idk to what advanced age I could walk the stairs to access it. I was intrigued by an article in the NYT about a woman who moved to a modest apartment in Manhattan (from some beautiful bucolic suburban place) when she could no longer drive, or just felt too isolated…I’d say late 70s if memory serves, and is now mid-90s, going strong and living entirely independently. She walks and busses every day, volunteers at a museum something like twice per week, goes to cultural events, finds free or reduced-price things to do, uses a library card, carries her own groceries from nearby markets and delis, etc. She has a son on the west coast that she talks with just about every day. I don’t know, the noise level and hard pavements might be too much but, there’s something about NYC and feeling you’re in the pulse of humanity every day. At home, I resent things like noisy mowers and weed-wackers and construction tools…I want peace and quiet and nature but New York….well, it’s a different sort of happy there…