Boomers: Do you want to retire in your present location?

[Nay]

7. Oh, believe me, I've gone back and forth on it. The chance of my child moving anywhere

else is quite low -- DIL's family is all here and my child is very much a settled person with his own business.

"What's best for me" totally depends on how I feel from one day to the next. This whole country is so teabaggy that it drives me crazy, so moving to Canada (I have Canadian citizenship too) is tempting.

Other areas of the country are physically more appealing because Mr Nay hates the humidity of the South. I could easily move for that reason as well.

Then I say to myself "well, how happy are you going to be when you move to a place where you know no one, have no family there, and have only moved there for some fairly superficial reason?" I also do have some lingering resentment, since we moved here many years ago for Mr Nay's job -- I feel like I got dragged here already, and now I am to be dragged someplace else, away from family and friends, just cuz we retired?? Really? Really?

I do continue to feel that we should spend several months each year in Canada or out west, or just traveling. I'm willing to do that at least. I don't have to be around the kids every day. I just don't want to see them once every couple of years. That would make me cry.