Reply to Relocating in Retirement

Forum Index » Eldercare

Reply to "Relocating in Retirement"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous]Seconding the PP above with the excellent advice. My folks retired to an area where the nearest major airport is 2.5 hours away, and even it is not an airport that's normally serviced by direct flights. I'm a 2.5 hour drive away and my sibling lives cross country; if that sibling comes to visit our parents and doesn't want to deal with a layover, its a direct flight into Charlotte or IAD and then drive 4-5 hours to our parents home. One of our parent's developed health issues much earlier than expected. Its been a challenge for either of us to try to find time to come help to say the least, especially with jobs and younger kids. My parents expected us to be visiting more often and that has proven to be very unrealistic. 
My parents also built a large home in a very rural area and many of the services they need are about an hour away. They put little thought to health or aging issues when they decided to relocate to the area and designed their house, which proved unfortunate when my one parent started to decline. I'm very worried about what is going to happen when I have only 1 parent left, and hoping that parent will opt to relocated closer to my family in anticipation of future care needs. My parents mistakes have been big learning lessons going forward for my husband and I when considering our retirements in another 15 years. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics