You have to be selective with condos. I live in a 3 bedroom 1800-
square foot place within a short walk to town. It has its own two-car
garage. It's older, as most such 'walkable' places are, dating from
the 1970's. That can be a good thing--- my 'common' walls are made
of concrete block. I don't hear a peep, even when the neighbors
have kids running up and down. Nobody is above or below me.

It was really no more expensive than an outlying place with open-air
parking and nothing more than studs and wallboard between me and
my neighbors.

I also have a 17' x 34' 'garden' which is fenced in and mine to do
with as I please (within reason).

I owned a condo in San Jose which wasn't nearly so nice.

I also owned a house on a half an acre for a decade.

In the interim, I lived in a loft (very large) 1-bedroom apartment
that was over a four-car garage on a horse farm. Also very pleasant.
Lots of farms have a rental unit or two on them--- a carriage
house or some such thing. Usually you can carve out a garden for
yourself there.

Maybe don't do anything too committed until you have a vision of
what you'd like your life to be like.