>>>> Just 6 percent of those age 60 and older changed residences between 2008 and 2012
2008 to 2012 time frame would be bad to based the article on.
Multiple ‘Recovery Summer’ notwithstanding .....
You’re comments are right on. The original article had all of the financial gravitas of most Yahoo! finance recommendations. :/
You are right about all of that. I sold my home of 20+ years and moved into a home that is smaller but paid for and much less in property taxes(14,000 vs 4800). In terms of memories you are right, those are right where they belong, in my soul. NO need to be attached to materials.
We left our families in Seattle in 2011 for central KY. Love it here, though I don’t see my 20-something daughters as often as I’d like, but their life is their life and mine is mine. Now, if they gave me grandchildren it would be much more difficult.
Stay away from those nice places! Those are strictly for the limousine liberals.
I escaped from NY in 2000 when I retired and relocated to the beautiful bayou state of Louisiana. I also left a blue state for a red state.
I live in Massachusetts.
Beat that one Emily.
retirement?? no money to retire.. I will work until I am forced to leave my position...at that point, I will most definately leave California, for affordable areas.
Left Mexifornia for Arizona in 1994 and have never looked back!!!
We’re having a short period of warmth in the northwest and the mountains, but don’t be fooled. This is the end of the solar maximum in this extended minimum.
3 to 9 years from now, we’re going to see cold that we’ve never seen before in the northwest and on the Rockies. Things are going to break. Heating will be extremely expensive. Propane will stop producing pressure for heating and generators, when temperatures drop to near -44, Fahrenheit. There will be many roads uncleared in winter, with layers of ice that vehicles will drive onto, then sink (government costs, equipment failures, overwhelming, extreme weather, high ice banks next to roads, quickly catching high drifts with every wind).
If you’re in the north or among the peaks, move. Find a place far enough south for warmth and continued life. Ignore real estate interests on weather patterns.
My wife and I are at the point where our children are grown up and on their own and we plan to be moving to another part of the country later this year. Time to make new memories - not relive old ones! We are letting our children live their own lives.
Yes, we will still see them on holidays and vacations and that will be enough!
With jet travel today, you are no more than 5 hours away coast to coast in the lower 48.