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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1 on moving somewhere fun not far from an airport so adult kids & grandkids to visit.  Buy a house with a couple extra bedrooms and a pool. Your adults kids will return, and you can celebrate holidays there.

My parents did this and are living their best life. [/quote]

+1 although best if this place is actually close to at least one of your kids.

My two siblings and I all moved away from the city where we grew up. My parents kept our childhood home until my older sister and I had both settled in different areas and had our first babies. Then they picked the area of those that they preferred, moved to a 1-level 3-bdrm house in a lake/golf community with a lot of recreation amenities and had a great 15+ years there. They were very involved with my sister's family, the rest of us were happy to visit there including me bringing my kids for a couple weeks every summer. And my sister was there to help when health became a problem. Dad died two years ago and now Mom lives with my sister.

I would be happy to follow the same model.[/quote]

+1 very similar situation here, though I am an only child. In ways I didn’t even realize at the time, I so appreciate that my parents kept my childhood home through college and turbulent 20s. Even when I got married in my late 20s, holidays were still at their home until I started having babies and then I largely took over.

Opposite with my in-laws, which was very really hard. They moved several times after their kids graduated, settling in a very rural area that takes one connecting flight and then a drive to get to. Other than Christmas, they expected their kids to spend holidays solo/with friends with only very occasional visits occurring during college and after. We didn’t have any issues until we had kids, when they seemed to expect a switch would be flipped and somehow an entirely different relationship would become established. It was really difficult on everyone, I think, with lots of hurt feelings on all sides. [/quote]

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