We moved from the Boston area to Scottsdale, AZ in ‘99 and raised our son there. When he was a HS senior, we moved about an hour SE of that house to a golf/resort community and right-sized to a house with a floorplan and lifestyle that better suited our retired two-person living needs. We thought we were done, just planning to get out of the desert heat in the summer by renting in various places, but we ended up buying a cabin in Maine a few years ago that satisfied my longing to be back in New England as well as our shared desire to get out of the heat. We spend seven months in AZ, five months in ME. You have to match any location to your interests which I described in the Downsizing thread. Our only child is in the Army, so it doesn’t make any sense to plan around him. Having a home on each side of the country means that, no matter where he is, we’ll be closer to him at least part of the year, but that was never a driver.
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