To the OP: Are you tired of winter doldrums, snow, cold, bundling up just to get the mail, ice, ice storms and power outages, wondering if your car will start in the morning without an engine block heater? Does it seem like winter lasts 6 months? Our answer was yes, so we bought in TV. For the 2-3 months where summer (typed simmer at first by mistake, but maybe not such a mistake), you can always visit old friends and family, and it seems cheaper to rent a nice place up north in the summer than a nice place in the south during winter. Our A/C seems cheaper to run than the heater, a nice beach is just a daytrip away, and we don't have to shovel snow or pay someone to. We can drive up to Maine, rent cabin on the lake, enjoy the summer, pack up and come home without worrying about winter upkeep. If we want to go out west to see one of our kids, there's no second home dragging us down. In short, with TV as our base, we can spend summer wherever we want without feeling guilty about keeping a second home that won't be fully used.
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