We bought a house in a newly finished neighborhood about a year and a half before we could retire and move here. Our main reservation was that the neighbors would have formed a social circle in our absence and we wouldn't be welcomed into it once we moved here. Instead, we were met with open arms by the best neighbors we have ever had (and we had great ones in North Carolina for 20 years before moving here).
A secondary reservation was that we would make some friends that we would lose too soon due to health issues. Sadly, that turned out to be true. We got to be really close to our "back yard" neighbors and after two years of knowing them, they died of separate health issues within a year of each other. It was a double heartbreak for us to lose them both but still a great joy to have known them for the time we did. It will happen again to us and some day we will be the cause of it happening for the friends we've made here. Until then, we are determined to enjoy our friends and where we live as much as possible.
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