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We currently have home in DFW TX and retirement home south of Sarasota FL right next door to our daughter and her family--including an 18 mo grandson...
worth an overnight drive...
not the best in terms of weather cause we don't/can't spend all the winter in FL and neither place is great for the summer but being that close to our grandson especially is priceless...
Retired some 3 years ago. My primary home is in the San Francisco Peninsula. I live 4 to 5 months of the year in Las Vegas, NV.
Love spring and the early summer months in Las Vegas. The latter part of September and October through November are perfect for me. I may relocate there permanently, at some point.
IF we could afford it - a house in coastal CA and a somewhere in the mountains for balance.
I DO like the idea of being able to spend time with siblings - but we are spread all over the country/globe. Spring in North Georgia where my youngest sister is is pretty spectacular. Fall in Wisconsin with the bulk of the family. Brazil? Carnivale!~
My MIL's sister would come and visit for months - Kansas City to Los Angeles. There always was room.
You don't have to OWN a place to enjoy it. VRBO.com is your friend.
St. George, Utah in the winter where we have our second home.
We currently have our primary residence just north of Salt Lake City. Its great for the summer months. If we are able to afford it though, DW and I have considered moving to somewhere around Jackson Hole, Wyoming for the summer months.
If I have to stick to the day's drive requirement, it's central Florida in the winter and the mountains of western North Carolina in the summer (a LONG day's drive). But I'd really rather spend the summer months in Chicago, preferably in a condo on Lake Shore Drive, please.
It took a while to figure out something within a day's drive. The coast of CT for the summer and Virginia Beach for the winter. I don't want hot weather anyway so Florida is out.
Surmer months would be right here where I live now at the Delaware beaches . Cold months St. Petersburg ,Fl.
My first choice for the cold weather would actually be somewhere on the north coast of Jamaica,
It is so much fun reading all of these ideas. Maybe instead of being within a day's drive we should use a mileage--maybe 600 to 800 miles? Also, it would be interesting to read why these particular areas or towns are being selected. Is it just for the weather? The scenery? The stuff to do? Please share!
It is so much fun reading all of these ideas. Maybe instead of being within a day's drive we should use a mileage--maybe 600 to 800 miles? Also, it would be interesting to read why these particular areas or towns are being selected. Is it just for the weather? The scenery? The stuff to do? Please share!
LOL...we'd still only get halfway there since it's 1500miles.
In Florida, it was mostly for a place that was seldom cold (really cold here is usually no lower than mid-40's overnight and 60s daytime. Those days are infrequent.
But, Naples also provides anything else we could want.
At 'home', the spring and summer weather is most certainly better than sweltering in Florida but nothing really to brag about. It's much too variable but seldom does a day go by that I am not awed all over again about how beautiful the area between the Catskills, Adirondacks and Green Mountains is.
It's a good thing we love looking at it because there 'ain't' much else there nearby (excepting family, of course)
It's also a very welcome break from crowded highways.
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