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Originally Posted by senior citizen
I was just chatting with some local friends and neighbors and we all remember our younger days when long distance moving, preceded by packing up the entire home, was a chore but not as exhausting as it became in our later years.......and that includes unpacking at the other end, after traveling to the locale. A bit different than moving locally.
It goes to say, that any northerners contemplating a move to sunny Florida are already downsizing and eliminating clutter and items which they do not want to bring along.......including all the furniture (at a later date) when a potential home is bought and their current residence is sold.
The question I have is: Will anyone honestly say that the move itself to The Villages was found to be exhausting?
Or, did they discover some novel ways of coping with the long distance move........such as hiring some help at the end of the road.....to unpack and organize the home? Or, help in packing up, to begin with?
The people I was chatting with earlier this morning all are in the same boat with stiff joints and various types of arthritis which cause fatigue along with limited mobility in the mornings.........so this would not relate to the 30 somethings and 40 somethings who live in TV.....but say 68 and older.
No matter where anyone moves to.......is WORK. Been there, done that.
However, when younger.........the mere idea of moving from one large home to another was not that daunting..........as it is today.
We would not be bringing our furniture, but there always are boxes of personal items and clothing to organize.......kitchenware, etc.
Any helpful thoughts or ideas on the subject would be appreciated....so thanks in advance. Or, as another poster said......please tell me your moving story.
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We moved several times with Westinghouse, and later a couple of times on our own. I have to say, moving with little kids and cats and dogs was a lot harder than the last two moves without the kids and only the dog and bird. I think we had pared down due to several prior moves.
However, moving to TV involved packing and cleaning up our apt. in Pittsburgh, then driving to MI and packing up a third of our condo, sending that off to TV with movers and then racing back to Pittsburgh to meet the other movers, and then each driving separately from Pgh. to TV.
Then sleeping on the floor and sitting in bag chairs while waiting for two movers to show up.
It was the most fun, relaxing, exciting move we've ever done, despite arthritis in shoulders and neck and one of us with a bad back. The whole difference, I think, was mental. Retirement and a new home in sunny FL made all the work seem easy. And we could take our own sweet time unpacking at this end. Just find the dog food bowl. That's what retirement is about, right? Taking your own sweet time.