Everyone is a hip fracture away from needing a downstairs suite...another reason why single level homes make sense.
LOL...we are in our mid 60s and just bought a second house close to the Canadian border. We are doing it all wrong — doubling our house size, going from a single story ranch to two stories with upstairs master suite, going north to the cold, and doubling our lot size and maintenance. Fortunately, there’s a large bedroom on the first floor we can use as a master bedroom and not have to climb the stairs again...as long as we make that change before we fall down the stairs.
We know of two families who lost a loved one in their early 70s due to falls down stairs in 2018! Yikes...too close for comfort.
We are so fed up with the insane politics of California and that was a major factor in our purchase. But we haven’t sold the CA house yet.