That is a very good question indeed!
We have set up this home much more informally than our home up north. This dining room table is used for puzzles, games, buffet style dinners as mentioned, my sketching, lap top computer, and for family dinners (when they visit). It is used really more than the bigger one we have in Cincinnati. I know why you asked and I thought long and hard about having two tables so close to each other, (some have one on the lanai as well) I think if we do, or more like when we do become full timers in TV, I will make the dining room in the next house down here more of a library with double desks for our computers.
I find that I am not entertaining people in our home nearly as much as we did before retirement. We go out to dinner much more with friends and may have casual coffees and neighborhood get togethers that are much more informal and that spill out to the drive way and garage.
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