{"id":1550,"date":"2019-06-19T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T20:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2019\/06\/more-baby-boomers-decide-to-skip-downsizing\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T15:11:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T15:11:48","slug":"more-baby-boomers-decide-to-skip-downsizing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/2019\/06\/more-baby-boomers-decide-to-skip-downsizing\/","title":{"rendered":"More Baby Boomers decide to skip downsizing&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-Boomer-couple.jpg\" style=\"clear: right;float: right;margin-bottom: 1em;margin-left: 1em\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" data-original-height=\"535\" data-original-width=\"768\" height=\"222\" src=\"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Baby-Boomer-couple.jpg\" width=\"320\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\">More baby boomers are staying in their homes as they reach retirement&#8230;<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\">It\u2019s always been a sort of final chapter of the American dream: Get married and have kids. Buy a house. Move to a bigger house. Downsize to a smaller one.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\">But a growing number of aging baby boomers are saying, \u201cNo, thanks\u201d to downsizing, choosing instead to remain in the same sprawling houses in which they raised kids and created lifelong memories.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: &quot;arial&quot; , &quot;helvetica&quot; , sans-serif\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/money\/2019\/05\/21\/home-buying-many-boomers-choose-age-place-and-not-move\/3698390002\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Baby Boomers in Milwaukee area follow national trend&#8230; NOT Moving! <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/money\/business\/2019\/04\/13\/tight-inventory-leads-slowdown-metro-milwaukee-home-sales\/3448496002\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to read more&#8230;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More baby boomers are staying in their homes as they reach retirement&#8230; It\u2019s always been a sort of final chapter of the American dream: Get married and have kids. Buy a house. Move to a bigger house. Downsize to a smaller one. But a growing number of aging baby boomers are saying, \u201cNo, thanks\u201d to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-real-estate","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1552,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1550\/revisions\/1552"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teamhoffmann.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}