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[quote=Anonymous]I would love it if my parents did this. Instead, they moved from a vibrant city with good medical facilities that we loved visiting to my mother’s tiny, somewhat isolated hometown, where everyone who can afford it gets helicopter evacuation insurance in case they have a health issue the town’s little hospital can’t handle. They don’t need care now, but my sister and I are worried about how we will handle it when they do. The original plan was for my sister to move from DC to their old city, which she also loves and where she could easily find a job, when the time comes. She’s not moving to their new town!

There has been some talk of having my in-laws move here to be closer to us. MIL’s favorite sister just bought a condo in DC and would love to have her closer, and there is a large community of their immigrants from their home country. There’s even a church where my MIL could attend service in her native language, which is definitely not possible where they live now. I’m not sure my husband could handle it, though. Although he’s the only one of the 3 children who lives far away, he’s the one who deals with anything that needs translation. He’s also their tech support. (My SIL is disabled and my BIL is feckless) He’s spent so many hours over the past two weeks helping them deal with a Medicare issue, and he’s pretty certain that the demands on him would only increase if they lived closer. So he’s torn because he loves his parents and would like for them to be closer but does not want to be in a position where he has to go over to their house every time FIL clicks on a dodgy link in his email.[/quote]

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