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Originally Posted by bcsnave
We are from the Lacrosse WI area in the bluffs on the Mississippi River and worry if we sell and go full time in TV next year that we might miss all of the things you mentioned.
Decisions...decisions
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My parents spent most of their retirement years snowbirding between Cincinnati and Bonita Beach. It became my model for how I wanted to spend my retirement years.
As my first snowbirding winter approached I was unprepared for the "separation anxiety" that I felt as I prepared to leave my lake home for months. Then of course I go through it again as I prepare to leave my Villages home in the Spring. I feel a sense of envy for those who just stick around all summer and don't disrupt their lives like that. Many of my friends who do stick around all year tell me they envy us because we escape the summer heat.
This will be our 6th year of doing this and while it gets easier, I still feel some anxiety about it. However, like you suggest, I would just miss, too much, this place and this life up here were I to not come back.
Were I having this conversation with my dad, I could hear his voice telling me "Well, Sport, if that's the biggest problem you have, you are living a very charmed life."..I mean I can really hear him say that...and of course, he's right. Even thought he's been gone from this earth for a decade, he's still right about that.