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To move near family or stay put
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@hraka13
Wonderful commentary on pros of making a move. Thanks for getting my thinking restarted. I love the town I still live in, but my children all live elsewhere. Most close friends here have passed away. Town has grown horribly and infrastructure hasn't kept up; it now takes 30 to 40 minutes to get across town where it took 10 to 15 minutes to go almost as far a few years ago. I don't like the traffic here now. Town has gone from 18,000 when I moved here years ago to almost 120,000 in a short time. Nothing has kept up - not roads, not medical. Rethinking moving.
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@joanland Toure so welcome and it sounds like you’re well on your way to a good checklist.
I’ll tell you, at first I saw my move as a failure. I “couldn’t make it” in the town I’d chosen to retire in. It really changed when I started thinking of it as an adventure and thought about all the things I’ll be able to do once I move. The icing on the cake - or maybe the cake itself - is that I get to live just a short drive from my “baby” sister, my best friend.
I wish you all the luck and much happiness in whatever you choose.