Walk through some new houses. They are built like !#@$% and typically have no yards at all.
They aren't building many nice houses these days. Just ugly boxes on tiny lots with walls made of chip board and HOA boards checking your prostate weekly (to make sure it's still compliant with their precious rules).
Your old house will outlast the new ones. You made the right choice.
We are living in a new house now. We looked at older homes when we moved to S. FL a few years ago, and the big problem was most of them were in terrible shape, they were too near the ocean (in the evacuation zone—so insurance rates were very high) the neighborhoods looked very spotty and some even scarey, and they were more expensive than newer homes in better areas (I think speculators were snapping them up to flip). So, we are currently living in a house built in the late 90s. It’s fine, actually seems very well built (we are not the first owners) but the yard is tiny and so is the house. But, it’s what we could afford moving from TX to S. FL.
Of course, if we had to sell now, I’m not sure we would get our equity out of it, by the time we paid realtor fees etc. Story of my life.
susie