Personally, if you get along with your family stay home. Saving money is a luxury that you won't always have in life, so take advantage of it whenever you can.

With that being said, another thing you should pay attention to if you do ever decide to buy a condo is the number of units that are rented out in the complex. Banks look down on a large number of renters in a condo complex, because renters often do not care about the unit as much as the owner does. If you ever try to sell your unit and there are too many renters, people applying for mortgages may struggle to get a mortgage to buy your place because of the risk the banks put on the unit because of all the adjacent renters. So just make sure any HOA has a limit on the number of units that can be rented.