Friend of mine said my apartment layout was different...

[Mr.Bill]

24. About eight years ago after we retired

we downsized from a 1,600 sq ft home to an 800 sq ft mobile home in a nice park. It was an older (1977) mobile home that needed a lot of work, but we put some money in it and made it reallly nice. But our kids' careers took them a few hundred miles from us and we wanted to be near them as we got older. My grandson put a manufactured home on his five acres and we moved in to that a few months ago.

It's 550 sq feet, so another downsize, but it's brand new and very well insulated. We customized the design to make the bedroom bigger and the living room/kitchen smaller. This gives my wife room do do her quiltmaking with a sewing area in the bedroom. We do have full sized laundry and a tub in the bathroom and full sized appliances in the kitchen. We also have a storage shed and the bedroom has room for a king sized bed. We still need to build a deck and carport. We like it here, it very easy to take care of and clean the house and the bonus is two of our great grandchildren live just a few hundred feet away. Our dogs love it here and they haven't had this much room to run around outside in their lives.