Well, we are now about 7 hours from our grandkids and moving here is what has allowed me to be able to build a shop in the first place. ;)
We’ve gone from the land of 6,000 square foot lots to a 32 acre farm with woods and a 100 year old 40x60 barn. I’ll be adding shops and other out buildings as time permits and need arises. We had to move out here to do it.
I lived my whole life in or around Kansas City but traveled full time the last decade. Have a vacation home at the Lake of the Ozarks (central Missouri), and have kept it.
However, work presented a chance to move to Arizona two years before retirement and we did it. Now my prinicple residence is in a state with lots of retired people and retirement amenities with wonderful weather. I still have a vacation place in Missouri to take a break from the July heat out here when I need a change of climate.
My nine grandkids are scattered across the east coast and upper great lakes so I was already 10 hour minimum away and if we want to get together where they can reach us in a ten to fifteen hour drive we can do it at the Lake.
My travel had broken a lot of my regular social circle already but I will have friends I will miss. I will be forced to make a lot of new freinds, but that isn’t a bad skill set to freshen up.
It will be in the mid fifties Friday evening after work, I will turn the spa heater on in my back yard before I climb in. In the move I bought big warm robes for trip back into the house. I think I am going to like retirement in 2015.