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Stick with N-scale. The quality keeps getting better and better, and details like what you have listed are certainly possible in this scale. If your wife lobbies for small vignettes, then in N-scale you'll just have that much more room for more of them, thus increasing her appreciation of your layout, right? Seriously, if at a larger scale you quickly filled up all the space with a few vignettes, then you'd hit a wall. Something like kids swimming in a lake actually requires a lot of room ("context") to pull off right. If the lake is too small, it'll seem like just a pond, which would be covered with scum in the real world and not be something you'd let your kids dip into. Sunbathing on a roof in the city needs a city to work, and cities take up space. Of course, once you have a city, you have a thousand more potential scenes to dress up: what does that glass storefront display, for instance? Your space is tight, in my opinion, even for a full-size N-scale layout (by full-size I mean more than one distinct town, thus the opportunity to sense travel from place to place), but you should be able to get dogbone turns at each end and have a decent shelf layout. In any larger scale, it would definitely be point-point, unless you could handle a duckunder.
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