MachineHead
For you ,this small town is better than the old one concerning the places you go to work?
Are you more in a kind of central place?
And would not have to spend as much in the car that working ?
Concerning the house ,here a tip .
If you want to feel the place is ever bigger and get more light.
Strip all the wood and put clear varnish on it.
First try to find out the stuff who is on the wood .
If it is a kind od 'varnish/paint' ,in this case just sand the wood with a vey soft sand paper.
After that put the same kind of stuff ,but in a light color.
Not only you would get 'more place and light' ,but if you have old furnitures in dark wood ,it would give them 'a new life'.
Because of all the wood in the house with a light color,the furnitures will shine ,more than if all in dark color.
Just my opinion,but -i really think it - a very advised one....