[eweissenbach]

Very interesting thread! Many of the responses echo some of our issues and concerns. We have often moved in our adult life, leaving our childhood home for college and first job - moving back to our childhood hometown for 11 years, then moving away 26 years ago, and finally moving back to within 40 miles seven years ago. Moving holds no fear, and in fact, we are feeling the itch after being in our current home for over seven years, the longest time in any home in our 44 years of marriage.

Our three grown children and five teenage grandchildren all live in Kansas City, an hour away. The grandchildren have their own lives and activities, but we do enjoy them all coming to our lake home every holiday weekend through the summer. We have many family members within an hour of where we live, with whom we get together often. My wife's mother is 85, but is in good health and works full time! Another complicator is that our youngest son and his wife are expecting twin boys anytime now!

So, we have decided, like many of you, that we would probably not be comfortable with moving to TV full time. However, we really love the lifestyle, and want to spend as much time as possible in TV. Our tentative plan is to sell our home here and make two moves. We plan to give our oldest son (He is divorced) enough money to put a healthy down payment on a home he would like to build on 50 acres that his brother and sister currently own. The other kids are planning on building there also within the next year. In return for the down payment, which would help him out since he has difficulty saving, and may never be able to get what he wants without it, we would get a portion of the basement to store our extra possessions in and a bedroom. We would then purchase a home in TV. The plan then would be spend Jan. to June in TV - spend the summer with our son - back to TV in Sept through mid November, and back to our son's Thanksgiving through Christmas. Seems like a good plan at this time, we'll hopefully see if it works in real life.