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Originally Posted by tophcfa

Easy to say, difficult to do. I’ll sell the place up north if you are volunteering to take over the many responsibilities that exist up north, including caring for elders with dementia. Also, you will need to convince the wife it’s not necessary to have a place near the kids, grandkids, other family, and lifelong friends. You cover that and I’ll gladly sell. How sweet would it be to not have two homes to take care of, not have to travel back and forth between homes, shed a major ongoing and expensive responsibility, and cash in about 3/4 million in the equity of the northern home.

True, a "difficult" choice. Some of us move down here and then end up with the opposite problem. Family sees what we have and ALL decide to migrate down here, around us. We have also found that being in FL we see our family (the ones still up N) more than we did when we lived up there.