I lived in a city half of my life and now live in an isolated environment in NYS.
And the photo above of someone using a snowblower reminded me of the many days in the past when we would get that kind of snow, due to heavy drifts. The longest snow blower job I ever had took me over 1 1/2 hours to clear my driveway- and I loved it-but my point is, where ever we chose to move to, the weather should be a big consideration.
But the local dairy farmer however can scope out my driveway very fast these days and ,since I own the land across the road too, he can dump th snow there.
Personally I would worry about my bank account, to make sure my retirement income is in it every month.
And I would never want to live anywhere that has tornadoes, or earthquakes, or mud slides.
I have to drive over 20 miles to get fresh meat and produce , and it took me time to even get a landline phone here because I was technically at the end of the line, and they said I could get a phone in my barn as soon as we set up water access to it- but that phone would have to be in a different area code, meaning in those days, pre-cell phones I would have to pay a long distance fee to call most of my neighbors .
Visual Brian, you did say your "current life isnt that bad."
I bet many of us here would say that too, and believe me, moving to any other locale can be a BIG, stressful and costly PITA because we can always encounter things about a new environment ,that we really don't seem to like.
MarkD made great point:
"You either have a lot more energy than I have or else are a lot more bored. I hope never to move again. Moving is so much work and bother. In the end it will still be you living wherever you go and I don’t think any of those things will make you happy if you’re not already."
I sure agree because ,even if we change our environment, the one thing that won't change is our inner self, and our needs, unless we are very adaptable.
And also,I don't know how old you are, but for me, and for many seniors I know, we HATE too much 'change'.
