So many different reasons for different homes.
To each his/her own.
We currently own three homes.
2 cottages and a waterfront designer, that my wife LOVES.
We're under contract for a 2 br patio villa.
I think if it were just me, I'd live in the patio villa.
Then I could eat the Kobe Beef burgers at Square 1 in Pinellas for breakfast lunch and dinner.
Man are they good