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[Irshgrl31201]

I actually think the way you have it set up sounds nice. You can be with your friends and family for a good part of the year in the lovely PA summer and head down to FL right when it gets cold. It seems you really enjoy it and that is all that matters.

[151949]

On 9/19/2014 Danky said: We go in the exact opposite direction, HH......sometime before Thanksgiving we will open up our house in Vermont and begin the long, cold winter. We do come back and forth on occasion over the 6 months (it's about a 5 hour drive) but mostly we are hunkered down with plenty of wood and plenty of snow !

My DH has a friend who sold his home in Ohio when he retired and they moved to Wisconsin. That would most absolutely not be for me.

[151949]

On 9/19/2014 Irshgrl31201 said:

I actually think the way you have it set up sounds nice. You can be with your friends and family for a good part of the year in the lovely PA summer and head down to FL right when it gets cold. It seems you really enjoy it and that is all that matters.

We had dinner last sunday with my gang of friends and their husbands. We girls decided that they would all come down in feb and we will have a 3 or 4 day girls weekend. I don't know where DH will go but I'm certain I can find somewhere to shuffle him off to. There is always the Holiday Inn.

[Sooner]

We want to live somewhere on the east coast part time when we retire, but we will rent or lease. Neither of us want two homes to try to manage. I would guess we would go from about March/April to June/July and miss most of the excitement of tornado season in the plains.

[MikafromTopeka]

I bought an older but very clean Class A motorhome to travel to California with my son (sons) in when DH retires so I don't have to deal with flying or changing him in public restrooms or hotels. I'm not a 'camper' either. It's an Allegro Bus and I bought it for the ""bus"" aspect. We have a family vacation home to stay in when we get there.

ps. Thank you Tansy!

[brii]

We'll eventually live in a warm climate year round. I don't think it will be in a retirement community though. Not that there's anything wrong with that, just at this point, I don't see that happening.

But I never say never...

[Marienkaefer2]

On 9/19/2014 happy housewife said:

On 9/19/2014 Marienkaefer2 said: I never liked camping, HOWEVER the motor home that the o/p has sounds like a very nice living space, not like camping at all. Some of those motor homes are really luxurious. I've changed my mind about them vs staying in hotels, no matter how nice the hotel is. I have seen so many gross people, even in the most high end places, that I skeeve when I think about staying in a hotel anymore. I'd rather have my own place, whether it's a really nice motor home, or a small condo.

we do not have a motorhome - we have a trailer. A motorhome is more or less a bus - a trailer is pulled behind a truck.

I know what a motor home is. You didn't need to define it for me. You could have just clarified what you had. Anyway, I was trying to compliment whatever you chose for your living choice.

[minkbunny]

We would never leave Missouri but when my late husband was alive we did travel three hours each way to our cabin at the farm (where I now live). It was just far enough that we felt like we were getting away - and a totally different lifestyle - but close enough we could come every weekend if we wanted. It was a lot of fun getting things together on Friday nights, stopping at one of our favorite restaurants on the way down and relaxing a bit as we both had very stressful jobs, then getting here and saying Ahhhh....

I was just telling my (now) husband the other day that I could remember the Fridays nights when the honeysuckle would smell so good in the summer, we would just sit outside and soak it in.

Enjoy your stay. Savor the memories so you can pull them up and up again.

[PinkClover]

I leave for my home in Fort Myers Beach after New Years. I can't miss Christmas in Michigan.