They eventually move out, tho. that's always the thing. Mansions aren't usually designed to downsize well.

Our family has a two-apartment house with a shared garden, and we leave the interior-apartment doors in the stairwell unlocked. That way you can huddle down in one apartment and expand into the second when there's more people, or rent it out.

Like this.

https://baumentor.de/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/mehrparteienhaus-hanse-haus-1024x512.jpg 

 That’s too European of a concept for me. lol as an American it’s big house. Big guns, big fence, big truck and lots of space between you and the neighbors. 

 😂 

 yeah, i want to live in a place where i can't hear my neighbours shooting 

 lol we don’t shoot guns in our backyards 

 My neighbors shoot in the forest or at the range. 😂 

 what i meant was that i'd rather have my neighbours over the edge of the horizon 😉  

 ie, either i'm in very ripply mountains that are hard to get around, or in a desert where average property sizes is more than 5km radius 

 I dream of Skye. No cap, fr. 

 the Azores sound a bit similar, but not so cold 

 I mean, it's over 4200 ft².

How big is a mansion? Like a castle or a small manor house? 🤔 

 Mansion is usually around 10k square feet here in America 

 Everything is bigger in America. 🤷‍♀️ 

 7 people and a dog would rattle around in 10k. 😂 Need like a dog whistle and a babycam in every room, so that you can track down the toddlers. 

 Ah, mansion over 5000 ft². Good. We're still the poors. 😂