My husband announced about 9 months ago: "You may all go to hell, but I am going to Texas". We now own two houses because I tried living in Texas for 15 years and could only complain about the God awful humidity.

We are 70. We are healthy. We both exercise. I eat healthy he eats modified "Texan" meaning sweet tea and BBQ brisket, lots of rice, fried food and Blue Bell ice cream; he lives Texas/Southern lifestyle of sitting on the couch watching: ML baseball, college football, college baseball...

I rarely watch TV and need to be outdoors all the time. Going. I still enjoy working - it makes me feel useful and I enjoy the light social that brings as well as pocket change in retirement..to go travel when I get an urge to go.

I tried "retirement" in Texas. It is too humid to do anything outside, even sit, without sweat pouring off of me.

I am a very active person, four walls close in very quickly. I am not the "volunteering" type...I enjoy a paycheck as it makes me feel useful and contributing to society. Don't get me wrong, I do for others, just not in an organized manner.

If one of us gets deathly ill or sick, we have agreed visit to where the sick one resides to manage in home health or whatever other arrangement befits the situation.