ivanhoe, we are in a similar situation. We live in a townhouse in Central NY, and plan to retire in 2012 as soon as we can sell the house, then buy a new courtyard villa in TV. We are currently doing some updates and cleanup, and as soon as we can clean out the basement (wow, I'm such a pack rat), we should be good to sell. Over the winter we plan to continue to clean out closets and donate as much as possible to the Rescue Mission. Then, on May 1, we plan to list the house with a realtor. A couple weeks before listing, we will have a dumpster and a PODS type moving container in the driveway. Most of everything is going into one or the other, hopefully less in the moving container and more in the dumpster. I'm hoping my employer will be offering exit packages to volunteers in the next six months, but in any event, our plan is to be out of here in the Summer, so this should be our last winter in the snow capital of the USA. Hooray - we see the light at the end of the tunnel! And a glass of wine and a laugh sounds great to us, as long as we can do it at Urban Flatts (or whatever they call it now) on a nice Summer evening in 2012 in TV. Good luck on your quest.
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