[JoMar]

Your dilemma is one of the reasons the storage unit business here is growing. For those things you can't part with, rent a unit so you can visit or rotate. You can keep those things until you realize (and one day you will) that all them are just stuff....the memories are in your heart and your head. The people that are those memories will all be those people, those places will always be there. What was more important to us was that it was time to keep the past in the past and begin a life generating new experiences, meeting new friends and exploring a new State. We sold everything that would remind us the northern past (all that dark furniture)....kept the stuff that was family and embarked with our faces to the wind. We have never looked back....and we spend more times with family here then we did there. To be fair, not everyone can make the transition. Some just can't let go of the past and they sell here and go back, or they sell here, go back and revert to snowbird status. You won't really know until you get here which will be best for you. Whatever it is, just realize that stuff is stuff and can and should be replaced now and then, memories are forever