In my experience it has been the opposite. My tiny house friends now live where I wished I was living, so now I go visit them. They also are generally happier with where they are living, because it has been so intentional. Every part of their life has been considered, and they are living in the midst of exactly what they want. There is no cruft or dross. So they tend to be way more "at home" in their tiny space than they ever were in their 2200 sq ft house. Other friends have stayed in town by setting up in the back yard of a house, so they are still in the regular circle of friends and activities they have always been a part of. And, most importantly, living in a tiny house doesn't mean you don't have a shed, or an office, or a workshop, or even another tiny house for guests. It just means you don't have to live in the middle of all that shit anymore. A place for everything and everything in its place. (This may be the biggest part of the tiny house movement that non-tiny house people don't get: The tiny house CAN move, but it doesn't. It is a BITCH to move for many reasons, same as any "mobile home". The ultimate idea is not portability, it's living a more considered life. This is the exact same model that sailors have been espousing the benefits of for the last 3 centuries. It's not new thinking, just a new implementation of an old idea.) That's the subtext of the tiny house movement - "don't visit me, I'll visit you."