All of this is subjective and you do have to consider most posters do hire most things out. That said:
The size of the home does not corelate to the amount of maintenance i.e. a 2,000 sq ft home is not 1/3 more work than 1,500 sq ft. Nor is a courtyard Villa that much easier than a designer home.
I would by a home at least 50% the same size of your current home.
You can do all the bush trimming if you visit three times a year.
Don't forget smart home monitoring. You can confirm the AC is working with a smart thermostat. You can eliminate most ac problems by changing the AC capacitor annually, overkill but cheap insurance. Vinyl requires annual power washing but so does stucco. Stucco gets painted every seven years.
I would buy the home that I can afford and want and not filter by maintenance.
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