Family is first. I understand that. Your wife is right.

I suppose what the “real world” needs is an age appropriate extension of The Villages concept. When I go up north I take a little something of TV with me. My friendliness towards neighbors, my very tidy front lawn, Mah Jongg at the cafe-game store beside the college guys playing Dungeons and Dragons, and so on. One drop at a time, make my northern city a bit like TV.

hence the snowbird theorem