Jo C. Very good advice and happy to hear that your experience was good too.
We are preparing what we thought of as our "last house" for sale. It is 20 years old but in twenty years light fixtures need updating and wallpaper is out of vogue. (I hear it's coming back, but new brilliant huge florals...not for me)
We have had and are still having wonderful times in this house and probably won't list it for a year..hoping for a little recovery in the market. Our daughter lives closeby and I know she has mixed feelings but hasn't voiced the....."don't move" ones. She is 46, maybe she will retire to TV too. She loves it there.
The house is very hard to maintain. It is such a breeze to take care of our Camellia. Life changes and we change and steps are not as easy as they once were.
Conn, I am sending this hug to you. Please save it and give it back to me. I will be needing it. Change is hard, even if it is change for the better.