Where to live next?

Hello,

One of the most difficult or mysterious questions for us is where to live in retirement. As I have mentioned before we would like to be close to our children. I do not see them living close to each other anytime soon. Their close proximity to each other would solve our move thoughts on a broad geographic area. So who do we live by? There are advantages and disadvantages in all of that. Also would those children stay put until we die? It is hard to say. We do not want to tie them down. If we live another 30 years, they will be about as old as I am now and looking to retire or will have already done so.

One of my high school classmates just died. My 50^th class reunion is this year. When my mother celebrated her 50^th less than half the class was still alive. The majority of my classmates are still alive. Is life expectancy that much greater? Or are we as a group just healthier?

Age stuff is something to ponder. How did I get to be this age anyway? What really astounds me is the age of my children. Seems that I have not been alive long enough to have children so old.

I am staying in the house quite a bit now because I do not want to expose my face to the sun. I could wear a hat, but my ears get too cold so I feel that I look silly with a stocking hat on as well as the wide brimmed affair. I could put on sunscreen, but the thought of taking it off, makes my face hurt so I avoid putting anything extra on it besides the Vaseline recommended by the Dr. That is the reason must be why I am zeroing in on all of the age possibilities and how our lives will change. I envy people who have lived in the same place for years and they just keep on in retirement. Although eventually most people have to move somewhere else. Moving is not such a daunting thought to me as it probably is to them. So there are still some positives to the way I have lived.

Paula