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I think yes as you get older some people will never leave even if they want too. However if your in a State and going broke , deep down you got to make that one last effort to get the heck out. So people will get that one last drive to make the change and live with the choice and I think be happy. I know I did not want to get stuck and trapped in my super old age in NJ with all these crazy taxes and estate and inheritance laws. Also I think people who live in remote areas where there is a lot of driving will get the drive to find better situation.
I was on disability. The best I could do there in California was a crummy little over expensive apartment. I don't like apartments and don't like crowding either. I visited a friend here in OK and found out how much cheaper it is. My friends said it will be boring. There's weather. What if this and that. But I liked the idea of fewer people. Everyone has weather, and if it was as doomsday as they made it sound the who place would be empty. And what ifs are just that.
My little house is perfect. It would have been cleared as undesirable out there. I have a lawn and trees instead of neighbors on the other side of the wall. You get used to the weather, and here there is no smog. I LIKE where I live and it was a wonderful choice. I wouldn't want to wait ten years, be in the 70's and decide I couldn't take it.
If you've always wanted to get up and move someplace and you can than DO it. Plan and think but don't assume catastorophy is waiting. Take a chance. You shouldn't stay where you know you don't want to be just because its a scary idea to go.
I think yes as you get older some people will never leave even if they want too. However if your in a State and going broke , deep down you got to make that one last effort to get the heck out. So people will get that one last drive to make the change and live with the choice and I think be happy. I know I did not want to get stuck and trapped in my super old age in NJ with all these crazy taxes and estate and inheritance laws. Also I think people who live in remote areas where there is a lot of driving will get the drive to find better situation.
I used to live in California. I'd lived there all my life. But due to health I was on disability, and it got you a crummy little apartment. I hate apartments, too many people, too close. I'd wanted to move away from the crowds and cost for a while. Then I went to visit a friend in Oklahoma. It was amazing. No smog (I can't breath in smog, the IE is packed with it for months). Housing prices cheap and lots of small houses that would get trashed for mansions in California. I surprised everyone when I announced my plans.
But the cost is much less here. There is weather, but its not as daunting as it sounds. I like seasons. and I have all the space I need and grass and a fence outside the window instead of people. I wasn't ready ten years before. When I'm 70 something I don't know if I'll have the stuff to do it. It was the right time and the opportunity was there.
If you can't afford where you live, and you can move, and its got things you wish for, take the chance when you can. My son had already got married and moved too.
If you really don't like where you are don't let fears stop you from moving on.
I was on disability. The best I could do there in California was a crummy little over expensive apartment. I don't like apartments and don't like crowding either. I visited a friend here in OK and found out how much cheaper it is. My friends said it will be boring. There's weather. What if this and that. But I liked the idea of fewer people. Everyone has weather, and if it was as doomsday as they made it sound the who place would be empty. And what ifs are just that.
My little house is perfect. It would have been cleared as undesirable out there. I have a lawn and trees instead of neighbors on the other side of the wall. You get used to the weather, and here there is no smog. I LIKE where I live and it was a wonderful choice. I wouldn't want to wait ten years, be in the 70's and decide I couldn't take it.
If you've always wanted to get up and move someplace and you can than DO it. Plan and think but don't assume catastorophy is waiting. Take a chance. You shouldn't stay where you know you don't want to be just because its a scary idea to go.
You know when you get older you don't do much anyway but enjoy your house and basically your backyard so you might as well sit your butt where its cheaper!! Ohh btw, I did, I packed up and left NJ, I saw the writing on the wall, I had the energy to do it so I moved my whole life down to NC. Never looked back but to be honest I don't know if I could have done it in my 70's. I did it much younger. Its not easier the older you get. I can certain see why someone who is 70's or older cant get out. Strike while you have health and energy if you desire to do it.
I was on disability. The best I could do there in California was a crummy little over expensive apartment. I don't like apartments and don't like crowding either. I visited a friend here in OK and found out how much cheaper it is. My friends said it will be boring. There's weather. What if this and that. But I liked the idea of fewer people. Everyone has weather, and if it was as doomsday as they made it sound the who place would be empty. And what ifs are just that.
My little house is perfect. It would have been cleared as undesirable out there. I have a lawn and trees instead of neighbors on the other side of the wall. You get used to the weather, and here there is no smog. I LIKE where I live and it was a wonderful choice. I wouldn't want to wait ten years, be in the 70's and decide I couldn't take it.
If you've always wanted to get up and move someplace and you can than DO it. Plan and think but don't assume catastorophy is waiting. Take a chance. You shouldn't stay where you know you don't want to be just because its a scary idea to go.
Mid-fifties, moved several times in my lifetime, once cross country and back, itching to move again. We did the move ourselves each time, and Yes, it's an incredible amount of work. However, the necessity to de-clutter or "de-crapity" as one poster put it, is freeing in itself. I hate the feeling that I am stagnating, even MORE so the older I get. Fixed routines bore the snot out of me. Fixing up a new home, a new environment, new things to do and see, is revitalizing to me.
On the contrary, downsizing is freeing; liberating! Most households are stuffed to the gills with needless crap.
"... wife is emotionally attached to the antiques she inherited from her grandmother. It makes zero sense to me but I don't want to fight the battle. She will not get rid of that stuff...I have a vision of several huge dumpsters on the front drive filled with that stuff. It's inevitable."
Vision 67, let your wife read what you wrote, and tell her "you can't take it with you." The 1-800-GOTJUNK guys will have a field day with her excess!
Not at all. Am looking forward to leaving the cold climate I'm now living in for a warmer area when I retire in 3 or 4 years. Would live in India if I could.
yep we will move again one more time to retire in florida near our kids . I will be 65 and the husband will be 64 and we will hire help to load us and unload us and be done with it .
Now 53, we are planning on moving back to my home state of Ct from NH this summer. I have to admit to being a little more hesitant then when I was a bit younger and it seems a little more daunting to move and set up again even if it is a place we want to be. we take it a step at a time, saving money, going through things to keep or get rid of, checking out job prospects and rentals and things like that so it's a smooth transition.....
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