Having owned and sold a little wooden house that sat for the best part of a hundred years fully exposed to regular 100 km plus winds, I fell like I have gotten away with something. I also feel like I have learned about what I really want in a house:

• more and smaller bedrooms. Who needs a bedroom with over 15 or even 12 feet on a side?
• a producing orchard and large garden - when you read a line like "he who plants pears plants for his heirs" believe it. I miss my acre garden of Rusticoville but look forward to replicating here with a longer season. It drives me nuts paying 3.99 for 10 to 15 onions when 20 bucks and 3 months gets you 1000;
• a sauna. I have one in the basement here that I share perhaps with 5 other users out of, say, 200 fellow dwellers. 80 degrees C does wonders
• the ability to get off the grid. This BBC article points out the many ways your house can be self contained. I have long been interested in small scale wind power (I don't want to climb any tower when the damn propellers break in a high wind) and once read a now lost article about someone who designed lego-like blocks that each contained a small turbine which, when fitted together as a garden wall, generated a significant electrical flow.